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Hendrik Arend Rudolf (HAL) Wichers was born in Tarutung, West Sumatra in 16 April 1893. He was a pupil of “Rijksacademie” in Amsterdam, and returned to his native country in 1919, where he lived and worked in Bandung, Semarang, and Jakarta. He was a member of “Bataviasche Kunstkring” and participated in several of their exhibitions between 1923 and 1936. Several of his Indonesian watercolours and paintings were used to illustrate ‘De Zweep’, a weekly published in 1922 and 1932. An oil painting by his hand, entitled ‘Aren-palmen’, is reproduced in the ‘De Java-Bode’ of 27 October 1937. During World War II he was interned by the Japanese and put in a camp. Prolific and well-known painter, draughtsman, water-colourist and mural painter in an impressionistic style in a bright colouring, whose paintings reflect the artist’s cheerful and openhearted disposition. He died in Nijmegen (The Netherlands), 5 January 1968.   REFERENCE Haks and Maris “Lexicon of Foreign Artists Who Visualized Indonesia (1600 - 1950), published by Gert Jan Bestebreurtje (The Netherlands), 1995.