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Tan Liep Poen | |
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陳立本 | |
 A caricature of Tan Liep Poen, date unknown. | |
| Born | 20 August 1906 Malang |
| Died | unknown |
| Known for | illustrations in Chinese Indonesian literary magazines |
Tan Liep Poen (Chinese: 陳立本, b. 1906), also known by the Indonesian name Atmadi Asa, was a prolific Peranakan Chinese painter, writer, magazine editor, and playwright active in Malang, East Java from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Biography
[edit]Tan Liep Poen was born in Malang, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) on 20 August 1906.[1][2][3] In the 1920s, he studied art by correspondence with Federal Schools, Inc., based in Minneapolis; he received a certificate in 1928.[1] Early in his career he worked as a lithographer.[2] He completed a second correspondence program with the ABC School of Design in Paris in 1936.[1]
In 1933 he started working as a designer for the A. de la Mar advertising agency, a role he held until the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies in 1942.[1] During the 1930s he also became a prolific illustrator for Chinese Indonesian literary magazines, including Penghidoepan, Tjerita Roman, Tjantik, Tjilik's Romans, Liberty, Hoa Kiao and Fu Len.[2][4] He also wrote literary criticism and articles about classical Chinese art for the newspaper Sin Po.[2] During the 1940s he also had a number of award-winning expositions of his paintings, including in Surabaya in 1940, Jakarta in 1941 and 1943, Bandung in 1944, and in Malang in 1951.[1][5][6]
In 1945 he joined the theatre troupe Pantjawarna, led by Njoo Cheong Seng and Djamaluddin Malik, working for them as a scene painter.[7][2][8] He also started writing his own short stories and plays during this era.[2] He became the associate editor of the Malang-based literary magazine Liberty in 1946.[2][1]
His play Tas plastik (plastic bag) was performed on the radio in 1950, while Tjarang emas (golden branch) was staged in Malang in 1952.[2] He became a prolific writer for magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s, including for Liberal from Surabaya, Dewata from Jakarta, and in Liberty.[2]
He continued to live in Malang into the 21st century. His exact date of death is not publicly known.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kay, Ernest, ed. (1976). International who's who in art and antiques (2 ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Melrose Press. p. 377. ISBN 978-0-900332-37-1.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Salmon, Claudine (1981). Literature in Malay by the Chinese of Indonesia : a provisional annotated bibliography. Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme. p. 324. ISBN 9780835705929.
- ↑ "Tan, Liep-Poen". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online. De Gruyter. 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
- ↑ Sidharta, Myra (2004). Dari penjaja tekstil sampai superwoman: biografi delapan penulis peranakan (in Indonesian) (Cet. 1 ed.). Jakarta: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia. pp. 80–81. ISBN 979910016X.
- ↑ "Kunst Chineesche Schilders Kunstzaal G. Kolff & Co." Bataviaasch nieuwsblad (in Dutch). Batavia. 18 August 1941. p. 3.
- ↑ "SCHILDERIJEN-TENTOOMNSTELLING. Chineesche schilders." De Indische courant (in Dutch). Surabaya. 4 September 1941. p. II.
- ↑ Suryadinata, Leo (2012). Southeast Asian personalities of Chinese descent: a biographical dictionary. Singapore: Chinese Heritage Center : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 795. ISBN 9789814345217.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - ↑ Sidharta, Myra (2004). Dari penjaja tekstil sampai superwoman: biografi delapan penulis peranakan (in Indonesian) (1 ed.). Jakarta: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia. p. 33. ISBN 979910016X.