Johan Rudolf Bonnet was a Dutch

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 artist who lived much of his life in the town of Ubud

Ubud

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 on Bali

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, Indonesia

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He was born into a Dutch Huguenot

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-descended family who had been baker

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s for many generations. He attended the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam

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He was invited to live in Ubud

Ubud

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 in 1929 by Cokorde Gede Raka Sukawati. Between 1929 and 1940 Bonnet stayed in Ubud

Ubud

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 and became involved in community issues including healthcare and education. He was also very involved in the Pita Maha movement, which encouraged local artists to raise their artistic standards. After the Japanese arrived in Bali, Bonnet remained free until 1943, when he was ordered to be sent to Sulawesi. He spent the remainder of World War II in internment camps in Pare-Pare

Pare-Pare

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, Bolong

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 and Makassar.

He was forced to leave Bali in 1957 after he refused to sell a painting to President Soekarno; he was able to return 15 years later.

Rudolf Bonnet died in Laren, Holland on April 18, 1978. His body was ceremonially cremated in Bali in 1979.