Walter Spies, Pelukis Maestro yang sudah masuk dalam kelas pelukis pelukis Dunia. Karyanya di buru oleh para kolektor kolektor papan atas dunia.
Untuk Lukisan cat minyak di atas Kanvas harganya bisa mencapai ratusan sampai Milyaran rupiah, oleh sebab itu untuk kolektor kolektor menengah ke bawah biasanya mencari karya karya pelukis terkenal yang di lukis di atas kertas agar harga nya tidak terlalu mahal dan bisa terjangkau.
WALTER SPIES
Walter Spies (15 September 1895 – 19 January 1942) was a Russian-born German primitivist painter. In 1923 he came to Java, living first in Yogyakarta and then in Ubud, Bali
starting in 1927. He is often credited with attracting the attention of
Western cultural figures to Balinese culture and art in the 1930s and
he influenced the direction of Balinese art and drama.
In 1937, Spies built what he described as a "mountain hut" at Iseh in Karangasem.
Adored by the Balinese, Spies was the co-founder of the Pita Maha
artists cooperative, through which he shaped the development of modern
Balinese art and established the Westerner's image of Bali that still
exists today.
After living for nine years at the confluence of two rivers in Campuan(Ubud),
Spies grew weary of his increasingly hectic social life, and retired to
the tranquil mountain retreat that was to become the setting of some of
his most beautiful and atmospheric paintings, including "Iseh im
Morgenlicht 1938" Despite his desire to escape from a constant stream of
visitors, Spies still used to receive guests at Iseh, including the
musician Colin McPhee and his wife, anthropologist Jane Belo, the Swiss artist Theo Meier and the Austrian novelist Vicki Baum.
Vicki Baum accredits Walter Spies with providing her the factual
historical information and details on Balinese culture for her
historical fiction novel "Love and Death in Bali" - dealing with the Dutch intervention in Bali (1906), and first published in German in 1937.
In December 1938, Spies was arrested as part of a crackdown on homosexuals. With the influence of people such as Margaret Mead, he was released in September 1939.
As a German national in the Dutch East Indies during World War II, Spies was arrested and deported. However, a Japanese bomb hit the ship that was carrying him to Ceylon,
and because the crew were reluctant to evacuate the Germans without a
corresponding order, most of the prisoners on the ship, including Spies,
drowned.
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