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Heralded as the father of Indonesian modernism, Sudjojono can be seen as both a painter and a socio-political observer.

His career spanned four tumultuous periods: Dutch colonialism, the Japanese occupation, Indonesian independence and the so-called New Order Regime under Suharto (1966-1998).

Sudjojono was born in Kisaran, North Sumatra in 1913.

His Javanese father had emigrated there and met his mother at the plantation where he worked as a laborer. At the age of four, he was adopted by a primary school teacher, Yudhokusumo, who brought him back to Java in 1925 where he went to school in Jakarta, Bandung and Jogyakarta.

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Although he was educated to become a teacher, his interest and talent in art made him decide to pursue a life as a painter. Sudjojono first learned to paint from the painter Raden Mas Pirngadie (1875 – 1936). During the Japanese occupation (1942-1945), he met the Japanese painter Chioji Yazaki (1872 – 1947).

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