First European Artist in Bali
Friday, May 18th, 2007 by ablteamIn 1904, when most of Bali still ruled by native princes and wrapped in medieval splendor little touched by the outside, W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp, the first foreign artist to visits Bali, landed on the north coast of this little-known island with a bicycle and an irrepressible lust for adventure. The bicycle proved useless as the island had few suitable roads but today it becomes the only testimony to Nieuwenkamp’s visit to Bali, immortalized in the image of a man riding a bicycle on the wall of Meduwe Karang Temple in North Bali.
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