Arthur Tashko (1901-1994) was an Albanian born in Korçë, in the Manastir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Albania) 10 April 1901, an American modern painter, lawyer and musician. As a cubist painter he exposed his art works in Vienna, Austria together with

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, Léger,

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and after a period he met with abstract expressionists Pollock, de Kooning and Rothko. In 1923 invited from his brother Kostandin Tashko who was a diplomat in Albanian Embassy in Washington, DC U.S., and he transferred to Boston and graduated from

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. After his career as a lawyer he studied Fine Arts in the

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and deepen his knowledge in Boston Conservatory for flute sharing this passion with his sister famous Albanian singer

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.In 1962 he moved from U.S. to Spain and after with his second wife Rosa in Bogota,

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and lived and worked there for 31 years. Arthur Tashko is constructivist painter with a wide creativity well known in Cubism, and part of Colombian culture where he lived most and changed life at the age of 93 years, 1994.

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University of Pad ova

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National Art Gallery, AlbaniaMuseonacional.gov.coAlbanianscreen.tv
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