Jules Chapon
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Jules Chapon (4 September 1914 – 6 January 2007) was a Dutch artist who moved to France in 1973.
Biography
Jules was born in Heemstede as the son of
War years
His father was picked up and was executed by the Germans on 2 February 1943 along with 9 other innocent victims as retaliation for the murder of a German officer on the Verspronckweg on 30 January. This execution virtually wiped out the remaining leaders of the Jewish Community in Haarlem. Jules fled through the backyard when the rest of his family was picked up for deportation the same day. His mother, brother, and two sisters were brought via the Hollandsche Schouwburg and Westerbork to Auschwitz where they were killed. Only Jules and his sister Selma, who had been working that day, survived the war. After the war they returned to their house in Tuinwijk Zuid, which had been occupied by Jan Nederkoorn, the same man who had denounced his father and been the direct cause for the deaths of his mother and siblings. After the war Nederkoorn was tried and received the death sentence for war crimes, but only served five years. When the wife of this man came calling in the company of a police officer to collect belongings she claimed to have left behind, Jules' sister slammed the door in her face.
Career as artist
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Jules had sketched during the war to while away the time in hiding and afterwards he became an artist full-time. He took lessons from
According to the RKD besides being a pupil of Boot and Verwey, Chapon became a member of the Haarlem artist society
References
- ^ Painting "Achtertuinen" in collection Joods Historisch Museum
- Huis van Looy
- ^ History of the Galerie Espace on the RKD website
- ^ list of exhibitions at the Huis van Looy
- ^ RKD
- Jules Chapon on Artnet
- Biography Jules Chapon at the Joods Historisch Museum
- Jules Chapon on website of Heemstede historian and journalist Wim de Wagt
- Film fragment 1 februari 1967 from Polygoon journaal over Jules Chapon's monumental steel and glass construction for the Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij
- Film fragment 2 februari 1946 – Haarlem remembers the retaliation on three-year-anniversary
- Haarlem in WWII – Retaliation in North Holland Archives