Han Snel |
| (1925 - 1998, Dutch) |
| Scheveningen, The Netherlands, 1925-1998 He trained at a graphic arts academy in The Hague. He went to Indonesia in 1946 as a soldier, and in late 1949 after Holland acknowledged Indonesia’s independence, he applied for political asylum: he was the first European citizen to be granted Indonesian citizenship. Snel lived in Bali from 1950 to 1998. He fell in love with his favourite model, Ni Made Siti and they married in 1958. He had his first solo exhibition in Jakarta in 1962, solo exhibition in Tokyo in 1965, and participated in numerous exhibitions in Indonesia and overseas. |
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