Basuki Abdullah

{{short description|Indonesian painter}}

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| birth_name = Muhammad Basuki Abdullah

| birth_date = {{birth date|1915|1|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = Surakarta, Dutch East Indies

| death_date = {{death date and age|1993|11|5|1915|1|25|df=y}}

| death_place = Jakarta, Indonesia

| occupation = Painter

| education = {{unbulleted list|Hollandsch-Inlandsche School|Meer Uitgebreid Lager Onderwijs|Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Royal International Certificate of Art (RIA), 1933}}

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| movement = Realism

| parents = Abdullah Suriosubroto

| spouse = {{unbulleted list|Josephine|Maria Michel|Nataya Nareerat}}

| children = {{unbulleted list|Saraswati|Cecillia Sidhawati}}

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Fransiskus Xaverius Basuki Abdullah (born Muhammad Basuki Abdullah, 25 January 1915 – 5 November 1993) was an Indonesian painter and a convert to Roman Catholicism from Islam.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tokohindonesia.com/biografi/article/285-ensiklopedi/877-melukis-300-potret-diri |title=tokohindonesia.com |access-date=2015-01-08 |archive-date=2014-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210033150/http://www.tokohindonesia.com/biografi/article/285-ensiklopedi/877-melukis-300-potret-diri |url-status=dead }} His work is characterized as realism and has been exhibited in the Indonesian National Gallery.{{Cite web

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| title = Collection: Basuki Abdullah

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| publisher = Nasional Galeri, Jakarta

| date = 2007-03-15

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| archive-date=2007-11-03}} He received formal training in The Hague.{{Cite news

| last = Amirrachman

| first = Alpha

| title = Tracing Van Gogh's legacy: His works and tragic life

| newspaper = The Jakarta Post

| language =Indonesian

| date = 2008-04-05

| url = http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/04/05/tracing-van-gogh039s-legacy-his-works-and-tragic-life.html

| accessdate = 2009-06-11| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20090524091546/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/04/05/tracing-van-gogh039s-legacy-his-works-and-tragic-life.html| archivedate= 24 May 2009 | url-status= live}} During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies he was an art teacher. After the war he became known internationally, winning an art contest on the occasion of the accession in the Netherlands of Queen Juliana.{{Cite web

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| title = Basuki Abdullah

| work = Visual Arts Magazine

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| date = 2009-09-17

| url = http://www.visualartsmagazine.info/index.php/en/focus/119-basuki-abdullah

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}} His status in Indonesia provided an opportunity to paint the official portrait of President Suharto. Abdullah was beaten to death by three assailants during a break-in at his Jakarta home.{{Cite news

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| title = Three Men Charged with Killing Indon Artist

| newspaper = New Straits Times

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| date = 1993-11-11

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