Abraham Reiss (Amsterdam 1873 – Sobibor 1943) was the grandfather of actor and artist Jeroen Krabbé. He was a wealthy Jewish citizen of Amsterdam who was deported to the transition camp Westerbork and subsequently to the extermination camp Sobibor by the Nazis in 1943. There he was killed upon arrival in July 1943. In The Demise of Abraham Reiss (2010) Jeroen Krabbé drew the stages of his grandfather’s life in nine large-sized paintings, stretching from the carefree happiness in the early Twenties, the experience of the invasion in the Netherlands by the German, the deportation to Westerbork and Sobibor, to the point of the inescapable end.
Jeroen Krabbé: ''Amsterdam – April 1942, Jekerstraat 14-3''
Gemischte Technik, 150 x 220 cm, 2010; © Jeroen Krabbé, 2010.
Foto:WBOOKS
The paintings form a chronological order of this story in the upper corridor of the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus. The observer will be involved with the pictures because of the life-sized subjects as well as the architecture and its unavoidable narrowness.
Jeroen Krabbé (* 1944 in Amsterdam) is an actor, director and visual artist. He is for instance known for his role as the General Georgi Koskov in the movie James Bond 007 – The Living Daylights (1987). In 2008 he gave an overlooking display of his paintings and drawings in the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle. The Demise of Abraham Reiss tells the story of the life and death of his grandfather and therefore deals with war, sorrow and murder: Topics, which have already been important for his work as a director and actor.
The exhibition takes place in cooperation with the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle.
Jeroen Krabbé: "Sobibor – 9. Juli 1943" Gemischte Technik, 150 x 220 cm, 2010: © Jeroen Krabbé, 2010. Foto:WBOOKS
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