Trubus Soedarsono |
| (1924 - 1966, Indonesian) |
| Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 1924 - 1966 During the Japanese Occupation (1942-45), Trubus studied painting with Sudjojono and Affandi in Jakarta. He was a member of the SIM / Young Indonesian Artists and Pelukis Rakyat / People's Painters groups in Yogyakarta during the Revolution and produced anti-Dutch propaganda posters. In 1948 he was captured and imprisoned by the Dutch for his revolutionary activities. After his release he became a lecturer at ASRI / Indonesian Academy of Fine Arts in Yogyakarta from 1950 to 1960. In 1954 he was invited to visit Czechoslovakia on a cultural mission. He was appointed as a member of Yogyakarta's regional government in 1958. Trubus was killed in 1966 during the purges which followed the aborted communist coup in September 1965. |
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