Pieter Adriaan Jacobus "Piet" Moojen (26 June 1879 - 1 April 1955) was a Netherlands-Indies architect, painter and writer. He studied architecture and painting in
Antwerp.
He lived and worked in the
Dutch East Indies from 1903 to 1929.
He was one of the first architects to implement
Modernism
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in the Dutch East Indies. Moojen became widely known for his work on the Dutch entry at the
Paris Colonial Exposition
The Paris Colonial Exhibition (or "''Exposition coloniale internationale''", International Colonial Exhibition) was a six-month colonial exhibition held in Paris, France, in 1931 that attempted to display the diverse cultures and immense resour ...
in 1931.
He was active as an architect between 1909 and 1931.
As a member of the ''Commisie van toesicht op het beheer van het land Menteng'', Moojen was influential in designing the town planning for Batavia's ''Nieuwe Gondangdia'' garden city (now
Menteng
Menteng is the south-central district of Central Jakarta, one of the administrative municipalities in the capital city Jakarta, Indonesia.
The nexus of its heritage is the Menteng neighbourhood (Project), a new urban design developed mainly i ...
). He established the Kunstkring for both Bandung (1904) and Batavia. As a painter he was a member of the Bataviasche Kunstkring and actively participated in exhibitions. Many of his paintings were kept in Amsterdam's
Tropenmuseum
The Tropenmuseum ( en, Museum of the Tropics) is an ethnographic museum located in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1864.
One of the largest museums in Amsterdam, the museum accommodates eight permanent exhibitions and an ongoing series of tem ...
.
Moojen was interested in Indonesian culture, especially the ancient monuments. His ''Kunst op Bali'' (1926) outlined the ancient Balinese architecture.
Moojen was the pioneer of a new building style in the
Dutch East Indies. In 1912, civil engineer C.E.J. van der Meyl underscored Moojen's importance to the emergence of
Modernism
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in the Dutch East Indies.
Berlage made similar comment in his ''Mijn Indische reis'' (Rotterdam 1931). He reasons that in designing the Batavia's
NILLMIJ office and
Kunstkring Art Gallery, Moojen replaced the customary Classicist forms with "the realization of a more rational concept", an international architectural movement known as
Rationalism
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, which was later dubbed as
New Indies Style
New Indies Style ( nl, Nieuwe Indische Bouwstijl) is a modern architecture, modern architectural style used in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) between the late 19th century through pre-World War II 20th century. New Indies Style is basically ...
to refer this movement in the Dutch East Indies where it was slightly conformed to suit the local climate.
Works
Architecture and interior
*
Cut Mutiah Mosque,
Jakarta
*
Cirebon Station,
Cirebon
Cirebon (, formerly rendered Cheribon or Chirebon in English) is a port city on the northern coast of the Indonesian island of Java. It is the only coastal city of West Java, located about 40 km west of the provincial border with Central J ...
*
Hotel der Nederlanden's dining hall,
Jakarta (1906)
*Kunstkring Art Gallery,
Bandung
*
Kunstkring Art Gallery, Jakarta (1914)
*Batavia office of Dutch
East Indies Life Insurance and Annuity Company (''Nederlandsch-Indische Levensverzekerings en Lijfrente Maatschappij'' or NILLMIJ) (now head office of Asuransi Jiwasraya)
File:Bataviasche Kunstkring 2012.jpg, Kunstkring Art Gallery, built in 1914.
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Villa in Bandoeng gebouwd door architectenbureau Biezeveld en Moojen TMnr 60032273.jpg, A villa in Bandung built by the architecture firm Biezeveld & Moojen
File:Cirebon_Kejaksan_Station.jpg, Cirebon Kejaksan Station
File:Cut-Mutiah1.jpg, Cut Mutiah Mosque, formerly an office building.
File:NILLMIJ-Jakarta.jpg, Office of Nillmij ( Nederlandsch-Indische Levensverzekerings en Lijfrente Maatschappij) in Jakarta, now head office of Asuransi Jiwasraya.
Painting
*''Een prinselijke Javaanse danser'' (1923)
*''Een markt op Bali '' (unknown year)
Book
*''Kunst op Bali: inleidende studie tot de bouwkunst'' (1926)
See also
*
Colonial architecture of Indonesia
The colonial architecture of Indonesia refers to the buildings that were created across Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period, during that time, this region was known as the Dutch East Indies. These types of colonial era structures are more ...
*
List of colonial buildings and structures in Jakarta
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
*
New Indies Style
New Indies Style ( nl, Nieuwe Indische Bouwstijl) is a modern architecture, modern architectural style used in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) between the late 19th century through pre-World War II 20th century. New Indies Style is basically ...
References
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1879 births
1955 deaths
Dutch architects
Dutch male writers
Modernist architects
People from Goes
20th-century Dutch painters
Dutch male painters
20th-century Dutch male artists