Agim Çavdarbasha ( sh, Agim Čavdarbaša, Агим Чавдарбаша) (24 March 1944 – 20 October 1999) was a

Kosovo Albanian The Albanians of Kosovo ( sq, Shqiptarët e Kosovës, ), also commonly called Kosovo Albanians, Kosovar/Kosovan Albanians or Kosovars/Kosovans, constitute the largest ethnic group in Kosovo. Kosovo Albanians belong to the ethnic Albanian sub-gr ...

sculptor. Çavdarbasha was a major influence on contemporary sculpture in

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. Born in

Peć Peja (Definiteness, Indefinite Albanian language, Albanian Albanian morphology#Nouns (declension), form: ''Pejë'' ) or Peć ( sr-Cyrl, Пећ ) is the fourth largest List of cities and towns in Kosovo, city of Kosovo and seat of Peja Municipali ...

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, 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 Čaglavica ( al, Çagllavicë, sr-Cyrl, Чаглавица) is a village near Pristina, Kosovo. History 2004 unrest in Kosovo During the unrests in March 2004 that occurred throughout Kosovo, 12000 Kosovo Albanian rioters tried to stor ...

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 Haxhi Ymer bey Effendi Prizreni or Ymer Drini (c. 1820 – 12 June 1887) was an Ottoman-Albanian 'alim, hoxha and the political leader of the League of Prizren. He was Prime Minister of its Autonomous Provisional Government, formed in the per ...

and

Abdyl Frashëri Abdyl Dume bey Frashëri ( tr, Fraşerli Abdül Bey; 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

League of Prizren The League of Prizren ( sq, Besëlidhja e Prizrenit), officially the League for the Defense of the Rights of the Albanian Nation ( sq, Lidhja për mbrojtjen e të drejtave te kombit Shqiptar), was an Albanian political organization which was offi ...

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 (Serbian Cyrillic: Гани Боби) (20 November 1943 – 17 July 1995) was an Albanian philosopher and sociologist from Kosovo. He was born in Lubenić, municipality of Peć, Democratic Federal Yugoslavia. He was one of the first Al ...

's funeral.

References

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