Theo Meier-CH23C
← Back – Chapter 23C – Next → FROM BALI TO THAILAND(Strangers Came Along) I remember one night I was in the Safari Club on Patpong in Bangkok’s notorious street of sins when Shrimp leaped up on the stage and did a
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← Back – Chapter 23C – Next → FROM BALI TO THAILAND(Strangers Came Along) I remember one night I was in the Safari Club on Patpong in Bangkok’s notorious street of sins when Shrimp leaped up on the stage and did a
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← Back – Chapter 23B – Next → THE HOUSE THAT THEO BUILT(Welcoming New Friends) Theo’s masterful use of colors characterized the murals. In all three panels, the world of the gods was painted in bright, light tones, especially in blue and
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← Back – Chapter 23A – Next → THE HOUSE THAT THEO BUILT With all the sadness and grief that came from Bali, Theo fought hard to put his thoughts aside, and what made it worse was his knowing there was nothing
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← Back – Chapter 22C – Next → FROM BALI TO THAILAND(Friendship with the Painter) I have to admit, as I mentioned before, I was a bit disappointed. I found not an eccentric South Sea island painter with a mad look in
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← Back – Chapter 22B – Next → FROM BALI TO THAILAND(Further Trouble with Models , New Thai Wife) Hua Hin, being a coastal town, was blessed with lovely sea breezes. Theo was often seen sitting on the beach behind his easel-with
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← Back – Chapter 22A – Next → FROM BALI TO THAILAND Prince Sandith Rangsit was one of Theo’s friends who came regularly to Bali. Over the years they became the best of friends, like brothers, and they had no secrets they
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← Back – Chapter 21B – Next → SUKARNO COMES TO BALI(Hard Times Ahead, Lost Treasures) Back to Rubic. Like many young Balinese girls who showed talent, she had begun dancing as soon as she could walk. Even before she reached her
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← Back – Chapter 21A – Next → SUKARNO COMES TO BALI Luckily for the painters living on Bali, Sukarno was a great lover of the arts and he was known to surround himself with painters and artists. Theo had the good
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← Back – Chapter 20 – Next → UNDER THE RISING SUN Another arrival in Sabah after an arduous journey through Java was Theo’s good friend Ernst Schlager. We can only imagine Theo’s surprise when Schlager showed up at his doorstep in
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← Back – Chapter 19 – Next → THE JAPANESE INVASION After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia was swift. Japan had no fear of European interference. Germany had conquered France and Holland,
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