Albas Ibrahim Kodra

The painter Ibrahim Kodra was born in Ishem in Durrës in 1918 and died in 2006 in Milan, where he lived for more than half a century. With a great creativity of six thousand works, he is considered one of the most powerful modern Albanian painters of the second half of the 20th century. In the history of modern Albanian and European art, Ibrahim Kodra was one of the most outstanding original profiles that, even though he lived outside Albania, Albanian colors and themes were at his artistic core. The world recognized him as a forerunner of a new civilization.