Zef Kolombi (March 3, 1907 – January 23, 1949) was an Albanian painter. His father, John, was the owner of an hotel in Sarajevo; he died in 1910, and a year later, his mom died. Kolombi, along afterward his sister Vera, moved help to Shkodra to live past their grandmother. After the death of his grandmother, the two children were in the care of their godfather, Sokrat Shkreli.
In Shkodra, he finished elementary school-orphanage opened by the Austrians, and spent three years in the Jesuit school. He found a devotion to painting, his passion, but subsequently difficulty. He went to Italy and visited museums, art galleries and exhibitions of painting. At the age of 18, Kolombi returned to Shkodër and worked as a clerk in the Hotel Grand.
In 1929, after receiving a own up scholarship from Hile Mosi, Kolombi departed over for Italy, where he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. Upon completion, he returned to Albania and was appointed drawing scholarly in Elbasan, where he spent the bordering ten years. In 1936, he married and had one son, Julian, and by a second marriage had unconventional son Gjovalinin, while continuing to paint and carry out the tasks of a teacher.
Kolombi painted subsequent to materials such as cloth, canvas, cardboard and plywood, while most of his achievement is in oil, using more red, brown, green and white. Kolombi’s work Columbus is in the National Gallery of Arts in Tirana. His portfolio consists of 50 paintings and drawings containing realist landscapes (A Harvest, 1947), still-life (Grapes and Pears, 1940) and portraits (Julian, 1946). These paintings were often executed en plein air which are distinguished in the same way as a relation of composition and a plethora of colours and tones.
He suffered from asthma and tuberculosis in the last two years of his vivaciousness and died upon January 23, 1949.
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