Arie Smit |
| (1916 - 2016, Dutch - Indonesian) |
| Born in Zaandam, The Netherlands, 1916, died in Bali, Indonesia, 2016. He was trained at the Academy of Arts in Rotterdam, and arrived in Indonesia in 1938 as a soldier in the Dutch Colonial Army. He obtained his Indonesian citizenship in 1951. From 1950-1956 he taught painting at ITB / Bandung Institute of Technology. In 1956 he moved to Bali, and has lived and painted there ever since. He has had solo exhibitions in Bandung, Jakarta, Palembang, Balikpapan, Jakarta, Singapore and Honolulu, USA. In 1992 he received a Gold Medal Dharma Kusuma award from the Balinese provincial government for his contribution to the development of Balinese painting. |
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