Ndoc Martini
Ndoc Martini (1880 - 1916) was an Albanian painter.
Life
Martini was born in Shkodër, north Albania, back then Ottoman Empire. He was a Roman Catholic. He took his first lessons from Kolë Idromeno in his home town at the School of Arts and Crafts.[1] From 1904 to 1907 he lived in Calabria, Italy based on a scholarship from the "Scuola Normale nel Collegio Italo-Albanese di San Demetrio Corone".[2] After that he studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He had to interrupt the studies because of financial issues, but kept working as a painter in the Pensi studio. In 1913 he started suffering from tuberculosis and died in 1916 in a sanatorium in Paris.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Sigfried J. de Laet, Ahmad Hasan Dani, José Luis Lorenzo, R. B. Nunoo (2005-03-16), History of Humanity: The nineteenth century, History of Humanity 6, Routledge, p. 349, ISBN 978-0415093101, retrieved 2014-11-28
- 1 2 Adriano Mazziotti (2008), S.O.S. PER LE PITTURE DI NDOC MARTINI A SAN DEMETRIO CORONE [SOS for the paintings of Ndoc Martini in San Demetrio Corone] (in Italian), Arbitalia
- ↑ Robert Elsie (2010), Historical Dictionary of Albania, Historical Dictionaries of Europe 75 (2 ed.), Scarecrow Press, p. 294, ISBN 978-0810861886
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