Agim Çavdarbasha () (24 March 1944 – 20 October 1999) was a Kosovo Albanian sculptor. Çavdarbasha was a major influence on contemporary sculpture in

Kosovo Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the ...

. Born in

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(modern-day Peja,

), he graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts of

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in 1969 and the Academy of Arts of

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in 1971. He was a member of the Academy of Figurative of Arts of Kosovo and later of the Academy of Science and Arts. His atelier in Čaglavica was put to flame during the 2004 unrests, but was rebuilt and today stands as a museum.

Works

His works include the statues of Ymer Prizreni and

Abdyl Frashëri Abdyl Dume bey Frashëri (, or ''Abdullah Hüsni''; 1 June 1839 – 23 October 1892) was an Ottoman Albanian civil servant, politician during the First Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire, and one of the first Albanian political ideologues ...

displayed at the

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museum. During the

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, Serbian policemen threw the statues into a nearby river and the museum was burnt. His 1987 sculpture ''The Women of Lybeniq'' shows women leaning to see

Gani Bobi Gani Bobi ( sr-Cyrl, Гани Боби; 20 November 1943 – 17 July 1995) was an Albanians, Albanian philosopher and sociologist from Kosovo. He was born in Lubenić, municipality of Peć, at the time Democratic Federal Yugoslavia. He was one of ...

's funeral.

References

Place of death missing 1944 births 1999 deaths 20th-century Albanian sculptors People from Peja Members of the Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts Academic staff of the University of Pristina {{Albania-sculptor-stub