![]() ![]() In 1927, a year before leaving for the Dutch East Indies, Bonnet, aged thirty-two, completed a self-portrait. Rudolf remained in Italy for eight years. The town was the home of an artists’ colony and many of the young inhabitants would pose as models for the this thriving artistic community. Rudolf loved the area south of Rome known as Anticoli Corrado. In 1920, when he was twenty-five, Rudolf Bonnet along with his parents took a vacation to Italy. ![]() He also attended evening classes at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten. After normal Primary schooling he received artistic education at a technical High School where he studied decorative painting. and his mother was Elisabeth Elsina Mann, and both were of Huguenot descent, and were bakers. It was during his journeys away from his homeland to the East Indies which saw his artistic talent blossom. He was one of the most individualistic artists who travelled and painted in the Dutch East Indies during the first half of the 20th century and he stood head and shoulders above his fellow European artists who visited the island of Bali. He was born in Amsterdam on March 30 th 1895, although, as we will see, he spent most of his life in the town of Ubud on the Indonesian island of Bali. Today I am looking at the life and work of the Dutch painter Johan Rudolf Bonnet. My next two blogs were requested by a reader of my site and so I always try and fulfil requests, here is the first one. ![]()
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