Below is the list of painters from

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or the Dutch Indies.

Native Indonesian Painters

* Affandi (1907–1990) *

Ahmad Sadali Ahmad Sadali (24 Juli 1924 – 19 September 1987) comes from a family with diversified batik and printing businesses. He was an Indonesian painter and art lecturer who is well-known for his abstract art, especially Abstract expressionism, and C ...

(1924–1987), painter and lecturer at the ITB-Bandung * Anak Agung Gde Sobrat (1912–1992) *

Basuki Abdullah Fransiskus Xaverius Basuki Abdullah (born Muhammad Basuki Abdullah, January 25, 1915 – November 5, 1993) was an Indonesian painter and a convert to Roman Catholicism from Islam. His work is characterized as realism and has been exhibited ...

(1915–1993) * Djoko Pekik (1937-2023), painter and sculptor * I Ketut Soki (b. 1946) *

Kartika Affandi-Koberl Kartika Affandi-Koberl (born November 27, 1934), is an Indonesian artist born into a family of artists. Biography Kartika Affandi was born in Jakarta in 1934, the only child of artists Affandi and Maryati. Kartika in 1952 married R.M. Saptohoed ...

(b. 1934) *

I Nyoman Masriadi I Nyoman Masriadi (born 1973) is a painter and a leading artist of the post-Suharto era in Indonesia. His works have gained a collectors base which includes prominent collectors in and around the region. Biography Masriadi was born 1973, in Gianya ...

(b. 1973), Balinese artist and painter *

Ida Bagus Made Ida Bagus Made Poleng (1915–1999) was a traditional Balinese painter. Known also as Ida Bagus Made Poleng or Ida Bagus Made Tebesaya or simply Gus Made. Biography He was born in Tebasaya, Ubud, Bali in 1915. Ida Bagus Made came from a Bra ...

(1915–1999), Balinese painter * Marina Joesoef (b. 1959) *

Mochtar Apin Mochtar Apin (23.Des.1923–01.Jan.1994) was an accomplished Indonesian painter and tenured lecturer. He was co-founder of the Arena of Independent Artists movement (Gelanggang Seniman Muda ) in Jakarta in 1946, and a member of the Bandung In ...

(1923–1994) * Mustofa Bisri (b. 1944), Islamic teacher, leader, poet and painter * Raden Saleh (1811–1880) * Soewardja (b. 1900), painter who specialized in drawing water color painting * Srihadi Soedarsono (b.1931), painter and lecturer * Sudjana Kerton (1922–1994) * Tio Tjay (b. 1946) * Umi Dachlan (1943–2009), painter and lecturer at the ITB-Bandung *

Yunizar Yunizar (born June 1971) is an Indonesian artist. He was born in Talawi, West Sumatra, Indonesia. He graduated in 1999 with a degree in Fine Arts from Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta (ISI), a school of national pride and the heart o ...

(b. 1971) * Popo Iskandar (1927-2000), Painter And Essayist * Motchtar Apin (1923-1994), Abstract Painter *

Abdul Djalil Pirous Prof. Emeritus Drs. Abdul Djalil Pirous (born March 11, 1932), known as A.D. Pirous, is an Indonesian fine arts artist and lecturer. He is a pioneer in graphic design education at the Fine Arts Institute of Technology in Bandung, and the founder ...

(b.1932), Painter And Lecture

Foreign-born Indonesian Painters

* Antonio Blanco (1912–1999), Philippine-born Indonesian painter * Rudolf Bonnet (1895–1978), Dutch-born Indonesian painter *

Lee Man Fong Lee Man Fong (; born November 14, 1913 – April 3, 1988) was a painter born in Guangzhou, China. His father, a merchant with ten children, brought him to Singapore. When his father died in 1930, Man Fong had to work hard to earn a living for ...

(1913–1988), Chinese-born Indonesian painter *

Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merprès (9 February 1880 — 31 May 1958) was a Belgian painter from Ixelles who lived the last part of his life in Bali. Biography Adrien Le Mayeur came to Bali at Singaraja by boat in 1932. He then stayed in Denpasar ...

(1880–1958), Belgium-born Indonesian painter *

Ries Mulder Marinus (Ries) Mulder (1 January 1909 in IJsselstein, The Netherlands – 19 December 1973 in IJsselstein) was a Dutch painter, lecturer and writer. His painting style was influenced by Cubism, which he taught during his tenure as a leading lectu ...

(1909–1973), Dutch-born Indonesian painter and lecturer *

Arie Smit Adrianus Wilhelmus "Arie" Smit (15 April 1916 – 23 March 2016) was a Dutch-born Indonesian painter who lived on Bali. Early life Smit was the third of eight children of a trader in cheese and confectionery in Zaandam. His family moved in 192 ...

(1916–2016), Dutch-born Indonesian painter * Han Snel (1925–1998), Dutch-born Indonesian painter *

Walter Spies Walter Spies (15 September 1895 – 19 January 1942) was a Russian-born German primitivist painter, composer, musicologist, and curator. In 1923 he moved to Java, Indonesia. He lived in Yogyakarta and then in Ubud, Bali starting from 1927, whe ...

(1895–1942), Russian-born Indonesian painter *

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(1947–2020), American-born Indonesian painter, aka Ronald Thomas Bierl * Richard Winkler (b: 1969), Swedish-born Indonesian painter {{DEFAULTSORT:Indonesian painters

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