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|Full Name=Theo Meier | |Full Name=Theo Meier | ||
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+ | |Biography text=Theo Meier was born in 1908 in Basle, Switzerland. He was educated in the arts at the Basle School of the Arts. He had worked as a portrait painter for the University of Basle. He made his first trip to Berlin, where he met Liebermann and Hofer at the Berlin Academy, as well as Emil Nolde, one of the contemporary painters he admired most. He studied with Otto Dix who influenced him greatly. | ||
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+ | Meier left Europe for the South Pacific at the age of 24. To finance his travels, he founded a club, where each member promised a monthly fee in exchange for which they could choose one of Meier's paintings upon his return. He sailed to Papeete via Guadeloupe, Martinique, and the Panama Canal, inspired by the beauty he encountered, but also disillusioned by the presence of Western influence. | ||
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+ | After returning briefly to Basel, he went to Bali where his life was changed forever. In Bali, he found an innocence that he did not find in Tahiti. He befriended the German painter Walter Spies, and later moved into the German artist's bamboo house. He married his first Balinese wife in 1936. When the Japanese arrived in Bali in 1941, Meier was granted permission to stay in Bali, unlike his friend Walter Spies who met his death aboard a prisoner of war ship crossing the Indian Ocean. Unfortunately, many of his paintings were lost, some of which were given to Japanese sailors. After the war, Meier remarried, fathering a daughter. | ||
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+ | After 15 years in Southeast Asia, Meier briefly returned to Switzerland, but then returned to Bali, followed by Thailand. In 1957, he married Laiad, his third wife. In 1961, Meier moved to Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, where he lived with Laiad in a beautiful teak house on the banks of the Ping River. He was a prolific artist and continued to paint until his death in Thailand in 1982. | ||
|Biography text id=Theo Meier lahir pada tahun 1908 di Basle, Swiss. Dia mengenyam pendidikan seni di Sekolah Seni Basle. Dia pernah bekerja sebagai pelukis potret untuk University of Basle. Dia melakukan perjalanan pertama ke Berlin, di mana dia bertemu Liebermann dan Hofer di Akademi Berlin, dan juga Emil Nolde, salah satu pelukis kontemporer yang paling dia kagumi. Dia belajar dengan Otto Dix yang sangat memengaruhinya. | |Biography text id=Theo Meier lahir pada tahun 1908 di Basle, Swiss. Dia mengenyam pendidikan seni di Sekolah Seni Basle. Dia pernah bekerja sebagai pelukis potret untuk University of Basle. Dia melakukan perjalanan pertama ke Berlin, di mana dia bertemu Liebermann dan Hofer di Akademi Berlin, dan juga Emil Nolde, salah satu pelukis kontemporer yang paling dia kagumi. Dia belajar dengan Otto Dix yang sangat memengaruhinya. | ||
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