Idromeno featured as photographer

TIRANA, July 7 – The arts gallery in the country’s biggest northern city of Shkodra has opened an exhibition featuring photos taken by Kol Idromeno, mostly known as painter and architect.
The exhibition called “Idromeno as photographer” features 30 photos part of the collection preserved in the Centre for Albanological Studies in Tirana.
The event was organized on the 150 birth anniversary of the artist.
Some of Idromeno’s paintings, part of the National Gallery’s collection were also displayed in the exhibition.
Kol Idromeno is the initiator of the Albanian painting school of realism in the 19th and 20th centuries. His first teacher was renowned Pjeter Marubi, the founder of Marubi Photo Collection in Shkodra.
Idromeno is known for his ethnographic compositions.
In 1883, he created the first Albanian realistic picture known with the name “Motra Tone,” a masterpiece of the Albanian painting, both of Renaissance and Independence periods.