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ABOUT LEO HAKS
Leo Haks has spent over 35 years as collector, art dealer and author.
Dealing in Indonesian books, maps and paintings professionally and collecting aspects of Chinese and Indonesian art privately.
Many items of Chinese and Indonesian art had been left unnoticed by the art establishment.
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Numerically, the Chinese collection (in its several parts) is by far the largest; it comprises: Opera costumes (now mostly sold); temple embroideries; funerary textiles; elaborate figurines made in papier mâché, textiles and or mixed techniques, for use in Chinese festivals and rituals.
Paper cuts used at these festivals, or on other occasions, were varied, colourful and, at one stage plentiful. Some were made in studios for sale through the so-called ‘paper shops’. Others were produced commercially and sold to the general public in packaged sets.
Mud and paper masks were made as component parts in the production of ritual figurines.
Woodblock prints and paper scrolls, depicted deities for domestic use.
This website places emphasis on parts of the Chinese collection, available to a museum or other institution.
‘Celestial Art, Paper offerings and textiles from China collected by Leo Haks’,
SDZ, Ghent, 1997, refers. (available at www.abebooks.com)
Political posters from the Cultural Revolution and immediately after that time were printed in large numbers. Many are now sought after items, especially those with an international subject matter.
Now retired from formal business, Haks continues to be active.
His current project; the gathering of early New Zealand Postcards, with a view to publishing these in book form within the next 2 years.
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PUBLICATIONS
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- Leo Haks and Paul Zach. 'Indonesia - Images of the past', Singapore 1987. (A biography of photographer J. Demmeni) Out of print.
- Leo Haks and Guus Maris. 'Lexicon of Foreign Artists who Visualized Indonesia 1600 - 1950'. Singapore 1995.
- ‘Celestial Art. Paper offerings and textiles from China, collected by Leo Haks’. Gendt, 1997.
- Leo Haks and Guus Maris. 'Pre-War Balinese Modernists 1928 - 1942'. Amsterdam 1998 Interactive CD-ROM, the first such CD on any aspect of Indonesian art. Out of print.
- Leo Haks and
Guus Maris. 'Pre-War
Balinese Modernists 1928 - 1942'.
Amsterdam.
Exhibition catalogue 1999
- Leo Haks.
‘Chinese Votive Costumes’. Article in
FMR two, September 2004
- Leo Haks and
Steven Wachlin. ‘Indonesia,
500 early postcards'.
Singapore 2004 Reprint 2011.
- Leo Haks and
Steven Wachlin. ‘Indonesië,
500 oude prentbriefkaarten’
Rijswijk 2005.
(Translation from
the English language edition.) Now in second print.
- Adrian Vickers and Leo
Haks. ‘Ida Bagus Nyoman Rai: Painter of
History’. In Newsletter IIAS, vol 41,
Summer 2006.
Download article in PDF
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EXHIBITIONS
PRE-WAR BALINESE MODERNIST PAINTINGS |
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- Cologne, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, 'Walter Spies, Musiker und Maler auf Bali', 1995. (contributoR).
- Rotterdam, Kunsthal, 'Magie and Modernisme', 20 May - 22 August 1999.
- Ubud, Bali, Museum Puri Lukisan, 'Magic and Modernism', 26 September - 30 November 1999.
- Jakarta, Erasmus Huis, 'Magic and Modernism', 19 January - 12 February 2000.
- Leeuwarden, Fries Museum, 'Magie en Modernisme', 4 June - 3 September 2000.
- Australia 18/8/2002
- 5/10/2003. 'Crossing Boundaries. Bali: A Window to 20th Century
Indonesian Art'. traveling exhibition (participant) Organized by the
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EXHIBITIONS
CHINESE COLLECTION |
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- Amsterdam. Pan '89.
'Chinese opera costumes'.(Opened by the Chinese
Ambassador to The Netherlands) 13 - 17 October 1989.
- Rotterdam.
Kunsthal. 'Hemelse Gewaden uit China', (Heavenly Robes from China)
21 December 1996 - 9 March 1997.
- Hasselt, (Belgium).
Modemuseum Hasselt 'Hemelse Gewaden', 31 Januari - 13 June 1999.
- The Hague. Gemeentemuseum
'Flaunting Splendour', (Stylistic development of
Cantonese opera costumes 1930 - 1960.) 7 April - 9 September 2001
- Utrecht, Centraal
Museum 'NEO', 27-9-03 - 4-1-04. Contributor.
- National Museum of Singapore ‘Bedazzled: Sequined Costumes of Cantonese Opera’
6 February – 1 May 2008. All ex Leo Haks collection.
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EXHIBITIONS
INDONESIAN PHOTOGRAPHY
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- San Francisco, Ansel
Adams Gallery. 'Toward Independence, A Century of Indonesia Photographed'.
(Major contributor.) 25 September - 1 December 1991.
- Cologne, Rautenstrauch-Joehst-Museum.
'Batik; Javanese and Sumatran batiks from courts and palaces. Rudolf
Smend Collection'. 22 June - 8 October 2000. Opened bij HRH the Sultan
of Yogyakarta. Photographic contribution.
- Amsterdam, Huis Marseille, ‘Isodore van Kinsbergen (1821 – 1905: Photopioneer and Theatre Maker in the Dutch East Indies’. 2005.
(contributor)
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. ‘Picture Paradise’ Asia-Pacific Photography 1840s – 1940s.
11 July – 9 November 2008. major contribution ex Leo Haks collection
- Photographs from the Leo Haks collection have been published in over 100 books, magazines, calendars and academic publications.
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AWARDS |
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Leo Haks is the recipient of the 2002 Profiel award, a Dutch
Biennial Prize awarded to individuals for their contribution to aspects of textile art. The award was given with specific reference to the ‘salvaging of Chinese temple embroideries in Singapore’.
www.stichtingprofiel.eu
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