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 avant-garde painter, lawyer and musician. As a cubist painter he exposed his art works in Vienna, Austria together in imitation of Picasso, Léger, Delaunay, Jean Arp and after a times he met in the tell of 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 Harvard Law School. After his career as a lawyer he studied Fine Arts in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and deepen his knowledge in Boston Conservatory for flute sharing this passion bearing in mind his sister famous Albanian singer Tefta Tashko-Koço.In 1962 he moved from U.S. to Spain and after in the same way as his second wife Rosa in Bogota, Colombia and lived and worked there for 31 years. Arthur Tashko is constructivist painter following a broad creativity capably known in Cubism, and share of Colombian culture where he lived most and misrepresented life at the age of 93 years, 1994.
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