Tio Tjay

Tio Tjay (born 1946 in Jakarta as Tio Hok Tjay) was an Indonesian painter who for a long time has reside in Brazil. At a very young age, young Tio Tjay enjoy studying Chinese painting and calligraphy. His talent for art was already sensed by people at youth. In 1967 he immigrated to South American with his family. He held many exhibitions, from São

Asep Sunandar Sunarya

Asep Sunandar Sunarya  3 September 1955 – 31 March 2014 was a Sundanese wayang golek dalang (Sundanese rod puppet master). He was one of the most famous puppeteers in the genre. Sunarya was born in Kampung Jelekong, Baleendah, Bandung, where he died on 31 March 2014 at 14:20 WIB (UTC+7) of a heart attack. He was 58 years

Raden Saleh

Raden Saleh Sjarif Boestaman (Arabic: رادين صالح شريف بوستامن‎ Rādīn Ṣāliḥ Šarīf Būstāman, Javanese: ꦫꦢꦺꦤ꧀ꦱꦭꦺꦃꦯ꦳ꦫꦶꦥ꦳꧀ꦨꦸꦱ꧀ꦠꦩꦤ꧀; EYD, EBI: Raden Saleh Syarif Bustaman; 1807 – 23 April 1880) was a pioneering Indonesian Romantic painter of Arab-Javanese ethnicity. He was considered to be the first “modern” artist from Indonesia (then Dutch East Indies), and his paintings corresponded with nineteenth-century romanticism which was popular in Europe at the time. He also expressed his cultural

Marina Joesoef

Marina Joesoef — born Marina Sastrowardoyo March 24, 1959 in Jakarta, Indonesia — is an Indonesian artist. She is a painter having recent exhibitions in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is also known as Marina Joesoef Sastrowardoyo, though Joesoef is her married surname. In the early 1960s, Marina joined her parents and brothers to live in Los Angeles and Leiden, Netherlands, where her father, Dr. Sumarsono Sastrowardoyo,

Kartika Affandi

Kartika Affandi-Koberl  born November 27, 1934, is an Indonesian artist born into a family of artists. Contents   1Biography 2Artistic career 2.1Focus 3Travels and exhibitions 4Documentary 5References 6Bibliography 7External links Biography Kartika Affandi was born in Jakarta in 1934, the only child of artists Affandi and Maryati. Kartika in 1952 married R.M. Saptohoedojo, a painter. She had eight children. Kartika’s relationship with

Affandi

Affandi  18 May 1907 – 23 May 1990 was an Indonesian artist. Born in Cirebon, West Java, as the son of R. Koesoema, who was a surveyor at a local sugar factory, Affandi finished his upper secondary school in Jakarta. He gave up his studies to pursue his desire to become an artist. Beginning in

Basuki Abdullah

Basuki Abdullah  25 January 1915 in Surakarta, Central Java – 5 November 1993 in Jakarta was an Indonesian painter and a convert to Roman Catholicism from Islam. His work is characterized as realism and has been exhibited in the Indonesian National Gallery. He received formal training in The Hague. During the Japanese occupation of Indonesia he was an art teacher. After the war he

Djoehana Wiradikarta

Raden Moehamad Djoehana Wiradikarta  born 18 September 1896 in Bandung, Indonesia – died in 1986 in Bandung was a professor in microbiology and serology at the Bandung Institute of Technology and the faculty of medicine at Padjadjaran University, also in Bandung. He played a significant role in the development of the Indonesian higher education system.

Jawahir Thontowi

Jawahir Thontowi was born in West Java, on 8 September 1956. He is currently working as a lecturer in the Universitas Islam Indonesia. His education background is from the Law faculty of the Islamic University of Indonesia and on 1999 graduated his PhD from the University of Western Australia concerning Legal Anthropology. He was a member of the Constitution Commission RI

Leo Suryadinata

Leo Suryadinata  born Liauw Kian-Djoe  in Jakarta, 21 February 1941, is a Singaporean sinologist. Contents   1Early life 2Education 3Career 4Publications 5Awards 6Personal life 7References Early life Suryadinata was born Liauw Kian-Djoe (also written Liao Jianyu) in Batavia, Netherlands Indies (today Jakarta, Indonesia) to a Chinese Indonesian family. His father was the owner of a building material factory. He had seven siblings.