Abdul latiff mohidin biography of albert
His art studies were at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst in West Berlin.
Born in , Latiff started painting at an early age and by 10 he was holding his first exhibition at Kota Raja Malay School in Singapore, and was dubbed in....
Latiff Mohidin
Malaysian modernist painter, sculptor and poet
Abdul Latiff Mohidin or simply Latiff Mohidin (born ) is a Malaysian modernist painter, sculptor and poet.
He is generally known for his body of paintings, sculptures and writings gathered under the term “Pago Pago” produced largely between and [1]
Early life
Latiff Mohidin was born in Lenggeng, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia[2] with roots in the Minangkabau community of West Sumatra, Indonesia.[3] He received his formal primary education at Kota Raja Malay School in Singapore.[1] His talent in painting later granted him the Deutscher Akademischer Austrauschdienst (DAAD) scholarship to study at the Academy of Arts in Berlin from until Later in , the French Ministry of Culture awarded him with a scholarship to study etching in Paris at the Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut, followed by a grant from the Asian Cultural Program of The JDR 3rd Fund (later known as the Asian Cultural Coun