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Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis, bekannt als C. B. Nieuwenhuis, (* 4. Juli 1863 in Amsterdam, † 20. April 1922 in Padang) war ein niederländischer Photograph in Niederländisch-Indien.

He was born in Amsterdam in 1863 and his original surname was Niewenhuis. He volunteered for the militia in Batavia, Java in December 1883 for a six year stint as a member of the Royal Military Band. In December 1889, he extended his contract for one more year.

He left the army in December 1890. In Batavia, he seemed to have worked at the Koene & Co. photo-studio and later left to Padang on West-Sumatra where he founded his own photo studio in February 1891. He died in Padang in April 1922.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Benjamin_Nieuwenhuis

Rohstoffe und Quellen

• Anneke Groeneveld, „C. B. Nieuwenhuis' Views of Sumatra“; http://www.asia-pacific-photography.com/towardindependence/Nieuwenhuis/index.htm

• The Memory; https://geheugen.delpher.nl/en/geheugen/pages/collectie/Pioniersfotografie+uit+Nederlands-Indi%C3%AB/Christiaan+Benjamin+Nieuwenhuis

• RKD, https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/391047

• Koene & Co groep / Nederlands-Indisch (hist. nat.), fotoatelier; https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/418685

• koene & co; commenced 1880 /1930 organisation as Photographic Studio; https://cs.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?irn=200832 und: https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?IRN=200833&PICTAUS=TRUE

• Indische genealogische Vereniging (niederländisch); https://igv.nl/

Zitate

Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis

Nieuwenhuis came to Jakarta in 1884 as a member of the Military Band. He learned to be a photographer there at the studio of Koene & Co. In 1892 he had a studio of his own in Padang on Sumatra, where he made calling card portraits of Europeans and wealthy Sumatrans.

Nieuwenhuis travelled through Sumatra a lot, photographing the landscape. He gave special attention to iron bridges, railways and train stations. His photographs also show the indigenous population and the various aspects of their culture. He photographed the homes of Minangkabauands, street markets, women doing laundry in the river, and men at the mosque.

Nieuwenhuis also took pictures of the original population in traditional dress. The photographs were sold to tourists, in albums or individually. They ultimately found their way to Europe, where the pictures appeared in popular travel stories and scientific essays.

From: Anneke Groeneveld, C.B. Nieuwenhuis' Views of Sumatra, in Toward Independence, A Century of Indonesia Photographed, San Francisco 1991, pp. 64-71 https://geheugen.delpher.nl/en/geheugen/pages/collectie/Pioniersfotografie+uit+Nederlands-Indi%C3%AB/Christiaan+Benjamin+Nieuwenhuis

• Category:Photographs by Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_by_Christiaan_Benjamin_Nieuwenhuis

• Category:Christiaan Benjamin Nieuwenhuis; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Christiaan_Benjamin_Nieuwenhuis

• RKD; https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/391047 (niederländisch); https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/391047 (englisch)