Nexhmedin Zajmi

Nexhmedin Zajmi (1916-1991) was born in Trebisht in the Dibra region. In 1931, he attended the American Vocational School in Tirana, where he studied agriculture and, later, art. He finished his schooling in 1938 and went on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he graduated in 1943.After his return to Albania in 1944, he taught at the Jordan Misja Academy and at the Academy of Fine Arts (Instituti i Lartë i Arteve Figurative) until 1969. Though much of his painting falls well within the category of conformist socialist realism, he is also remembered for moving portraits such as Nëna labe (Mother from Laberia), 1955, and Malësorja (Highland Woman), 1947.

Robert Eslie