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Bagong Kussumadiarja BIOGRAPHY
1928 Yogyakarta - 2004. Known for: Painting.
Bagong was himself a classical Javanese dancer with the Bekso Wiromo Kredo Dance School led by Prince Tedjokusumo in 1954. His father was a puppet-painter and a Javanese script-writer. In 1957,... Read full biography
Bagong was himself a classical Javanese dancer with the Bekso Wiromo Kredo Dance School led by Prince Tedjokusumo in 1954. His father was a puppet-painter and a Javanese script-writer. In 1957, Bagong received a Rockefeller Foundation Award. He founded the Dance Training Centre on March 5, 1958,... Read full biography
Bagong was himself a classical Javanese dancer with the Bekso Wiromo Kredo Dance School led by Prince Tedjokusumo in 1954. His father was a puppet-painter and a Javanese script-writer. In 1957, Bagong received a Rockefeller Foundation Award. He founded the Dance Training Centre on March 5, 1958, and the Padepokan Seni Bagong Kussudiardja on Oct 2, 1978. In 1985, the Indonesian Government awarded him the Art Prize, but he is better known for the award he received from the Catholic Pope Paul VI... Read full biography
Bagong was himself a classical Javanese dancer with the Bekso Wiromo Kredo Dance School led by Prince Tedjokusumo in 1954. His father was a puppet-painter and a Javanese script-writer. In 1957, Bagong received a Rockefeller Foundation Award. He founded the Dance Training Centre on March 5, 1958, and the Padepokan Seni Bagong Kussudiardja on Oct 2, 1978. In 1985, the Indonesian Government awarded him the Art Prize, but he is better known for the award he received from the Catholic Pope Paul VI on his painting of a fragment of the Journey of Jesus Christ. In 1980, he received the Gold Medal from the Bangladesh Government. With a troupe of 15, he performed the Gema Nusantara dance in Malaysia in 1985. Apart from oil on canvas, he also did... Read full biography
Bagong was himself a classical Javanese dancer with the Bekso Wiromo Kredo Dance School led by Prince Tedjokusumo in 1954. His father was a puppet-painter and a Javanese script-writer. In 1957, Bagong received a Rockefeller Foundation Award. He founded the Dance Training Centre on March 5, 1958, and the Padepokan Seni Bagong Kussudiardja on Oct 2, 1978. In 1985, the Indonesian Government awarded him the Art Prize, but he is better known for the award he received from the Catholic Pope Paul VI on his painting of a fragment of the Journey of Jesus Christ. In 1980, he received the Gold Medal from the Bangladesh Government. With a troupe of 15, he performed the Gema Nusantara dance in Malaysia in 1985. Apart from oil on canvas, he also did batik painting.
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Name variants
Bagong Kussudiardja, Bagong Kussudiardjo
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Bagong was himself a classical Javanese dancer with the Bekso Wiromo Kredo Dance School led by Prince Tedjokusumo in 1954. His father was a puppet-painter and a Javanese script-writer. In 1957, Bagong received a Rockefeller Foundation Award. He founded the Dance Training Centre on March 5, 1958, and the Padepokan Seni Bagong Kussudiardja on Oct 2, 1978. In 1985, the Indonesian Government awarded him the Art Prize, but he is better known for the award he received from the Catholic Pope Paul VI on his painting of a fragment of the Journey of Jesus Christ. In 1980, he received the Gold Medal from the Bangladesh Government. With a troupe of 15, he performed the Gema Nusantara dance in Malaysia in 1985. Apart from oil on canvas, he als...But wait, there's more...
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