Sudjana Kerton |
| (1922 - 1994, Indonesian) |
| Bandung, W. Java, Indonesia, 1922 - 1994 Between 1945 and 1949, he worked as a journalist-artist for the newspaper Patriot, Yogyakarta, under Usmar Ismail. In this period, he made documentary paintings, sketches and sculptures depicting scenes of the struggle for independence, which were exhibited at Sono Budoyo Museum, Yogyakarta. Together with Affandi, Hendra Gunawan, Sudarso, Trubus and others in 1947, he co-founded Pelukis Rakyat / People’s Painters. He was one of the first Indonesian artists to win fellowships to Amsterdam and Paris and later he also received a scholarship to study at the Art Students’ League in New York. In the late 1970s he returned to Indonesia and built a studio-gallery Sanggar Luhur, on Dago Hill overlooking Bandung. |
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