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Jules Chapon

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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.
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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
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who brought sales experience and a network of connections in the art world of the time. Jules participated in more art shows in 1952, 1959, and 1962, but began creating large-scale monumental works that would not fit into a gallery and were usually created where they were commissioned. His wife left
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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
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from Polygoon journaal over Jules Chapon's monumental steel and glass construction for the Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij
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who lived across the street from the workshop he purchased to double as a gallery and in 1950 he had his first public exhibition in the
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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
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him in 1963 to start another art gallery in Brussels. In 1973 he emigrated to France where he married a second time and lived in
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Klein Heiligland 36 in Haarlem, where Jules had his workshop and where later his wife Polly and Eva Bendien began their
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According to the RKD besides being a pupil of Boot and Verwey, Chapon became a member of the Haarlem artist society
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In November 1950 Jules had an exhibition of his work here at the Huis van Looy on the Kleine Houtweg.
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the same day. His mother, brother, and two sisters were brought via the
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in 1951. In 1957 his wife Polly turned his informal art gallery into
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in 1918 and moved there when this project, designed by the architect
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through the backyard when the rest of his family was picked up for
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on website of Heemstede historian and journalist Wim de Wagt
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Index


Barend Chapon
Tuinwijk Zuid
J.B. van Loghem
Kees Verwey
deportation
Hollandsche Schouwburg
Westerbork


Henri Frédéric Boot
Huis van Looy
De Groep
Galerie Espace
Eva Bendien
Aquitaine
Painting "Achtertuinen"
Joods Historisch Museum
list of exhibitions
Huis van Looy
History of the Galerie Espace
list of exhibitions


Jules Chapon
RKD
Jules Chapon
Artnet
Biography Jules Chapon
Jules Chapon

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