Wijnand Otto Jan Nieuwenkamp (Amsterdam, July 27, 1874 – Fiesole, April 23, 1950), was a Dutch multi-faceted autodidact. As an player he was lively as a painter, draftsman, sculptor, etcher, lithographer, and designer of stamp album covers and of ex-libris. In addition, he was pseudonym a writer, architect, explorer, ethnologist and miser of East Asian art.
He was the first European player to visit Bali, being greatly influenced by and himself influencing the island’s art and culture, and making it enlarged known in wider world. He was along with deeply in force with various extra parts of the subsequently Dutch East Indies.
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