MAESTRO PAINTER RADEN SALEH

Raden Saleh


Raden Saleh Syarief Bustaman Terbaya was born in 1807 in nearby Semarang, died in Bogor on 23 April 1880. He received elementary education to draw and paint from a Belgian painter, AAJ Payen between the years 1817 and 1820. Raden Saleh actually prepared by the government 'Dutch East Indies' become candidates in the Agency of Science and Arts of Inquiry, headed by prof. C.G.C. Reinwardt, in Bogor. In the year 1829 accompanied the Inspector Raden pious Dutch Art de Linge on its way to the Netherlands.

In the Netherlands, at the suggestion of Payen, Raden pious allowed to study painting at the Dutch painters, such as Cornelius and Andrew Schelfhout Krusemen. Ditahun 1839 he left Holland and went to Germany kekota Berlin, Dresden and Coburg. Here Raden pious horse painting portraits of the people in power, in 1845 he visited a former teacher, Payen in Doornik, Holland and from there he went to Paris and became acquainted with the famous French painter Horace Vernet. Together Vernet he had visited Algeria. -


In Europe, famous as a painter Raden Saleh animal life, in 1851 he returned to Indonesia and many people paint-ranking and wealthy. In Jakarta he built a mansion on the edge of the Ciliwung River, which is now a Cikini Hospital. "Part of his property had been a garden animals, which" has become the Jakarta Arts Centre-Taman Ismail Marzuki.


Raden Saleh was married to V. Winkelman, a Dutch woman Indo very rich, but eventually divorced. Raden Saleh did not paint portraits but also painted landscapes and various species of animals. He never returned to Europe in the years 1875-1879. On his return from Europe he lived in Bogor and eventually died there on April 23, 1880, his second wife was Raden Ayu Danudirdjo .***


(Indonesia Modern Arts Criticism and Essei In Jakarta 1996)