Dresden’s Memories of a Javanese Nobleman

July 21, 2010

HE wore white trousers, a yellow cashmere vest and a green, Russian, winter coat,” said Jutta Tronicke, an inhabitant of Maxen, a small town just outside of Dresden, as she described to Tempo the aristocratic painter from Semarang. The Tronicke family were the ones who bought the Little Blue House (Blaue Hausel) which was built with a dome as a small mosque (musholla) and designed by Raden Saleh while he was in Maxen. On top of the entrance to

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