1. Umi Dachlan graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design at the Bandung Institute of Technology ITB in 1968 as the third female graduate, where she become the first female lecturer.
27 Facts About Umi Dachlan
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Umi Dachlan's work has been described as Abstract expressionism with a figurative Lyricism.
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Umi Dachlan was born on 13 August 1942 in Cirebon as the ninth of ten children.
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Umi Dachlan's father, Muchamad Dachlan, was a devout Muslim and businessman, who died when Umi was only seven years old.
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The personality of Umi Dachlan is described as nurturing, firm and genuine by her friends and colleagues.
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Umi Dachlan's house symbolized her two greatest pleasures, nature and music, especially Jazz, which were crucial to her artistic work.
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Umi Dachlan was not married, and she died at the age of 66 on 1 January 2009 in her house in Bandung.
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Umi Dachlan's body was buried in the Jabangbayi Public Cemetery in Kesambi, Cirebon.
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Umi Dachlan was mentored by AD Pirous, Mochtar Apin, Popo Iskandar, Srihadi and Yusuf Affendi.
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Umi Dachlan was respected and well-liked by many colleagues such as Heyi Ma'mun, Sam Bimbo, Seriawan Sabana and Sunaryo.
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Umi Dachlan completed her studies at the Bandung Institute of Technology ITB in 1968.
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Umi Dachlan was among the 2nd generation Indonesian women artists, which sprung up during the 1960s.
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Umi Dachlan studied and traveled frequently abroad to advance her skills and experiences.
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In 1970, Umi Dachlan joined her teacher Ahmad Sadali as a staff member of the design team for the Indonesian Pavilion at the Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.
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Yet, Trisno overlooked in his criticism that especially the abstract-expressionist paintings of AD Pirous, Ahmad Sadali and later Umi Dachlan used many and strong Indonesian elements, such as historic geometrical forms, Balinese-Chinese coins and religious symbols.
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In 1971, Umi Dachlan joined a group of 18 artists at the ITB that called itself Group 18.
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Many of the individual artists of the ITB did not see their work as a reflection if East versus West, including AD Pirous and Umi Dachlan who was close with many of the ASRI Artists, such as Fadjar Sidik, Handrio and Nasirun, the later owns several of her late works.
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Umi Dachlan exhibited numerous times in Galleries and Museums in Yogyakarta since 1968, including at the Affandi Museum.
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From 1977 to 1979, Umi Dachlan studied in Amsterdam at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
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Umi Dachlan is thus the heir to the abstraction tradition of "Sekolah Bandung" pioneered by AD Pirous and Achmad Sadali.
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Umi Dachlan is clearly indebted to Sadali she has now adapted as her own.
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Similar to the Australian painter Kudditji Kngwarreye, who is compared to Rothko by foreign visitors Umi Dachlan was probably unaware of this comparison, seeking her own, independent abstract imaginations.
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Umi Dachlan's painting Five Pillars seems to reflect the Five Pillars of Islam.
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Between 1993 and 2007, Umi Dachlan painted at least 15 Matador works, which are among her most desired paintings.
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The majority of the work if Umi Dachlan are oil and acrylic paintings, of which almost 200 have been published in books and catalogues.
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Since more than 20 years, the works of Umi Dachlan have been auctioned by major international auction houses, including Bonhams, Christie's and Sotheby's, and they have a common presence in Indonesian, Singaporean and Hong Kong Auctions Houses.
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Over more than 40 years, the works of Umi Dachlan have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions.