Biography of Jeroen Krabbé

Jeroen Aart Krabbé (born december 5, 1944) is a Dutch actor, film director and painter.

Jeroen was, after he had studied for a year at the Art Academy, admitted to the Amsterdam Theatre Academy at the age of 17. He did in 1965 final exam; This exam year he got the Top Naeff prize. [1] from 1977 – 1981 Krabbé studied further at the Art Academy, and was taught by among others the surrealist Melle Oldeboerrigter was.

The debut film by Krabbé was Cycling to the Moon, a 1963 Dutch film directed by Jef van der Heyden. Krabbé played important roles in two major such box office hits of Paul Verhoeven: soldier of Orange (1977) and the fourth Man (1983).

As a painter has Krabbé checks the landscape painting, although he also painted a number of portraits and still life. His style, characterized by often bright colors, ranges from strongly abstracted to figurative, which influence of impressionism is noticeable.

Krabbé worked with the Francis Kyle Galleries in London. His paintings are by Kyle very successful offered to art-loving Englishmen who got to know as a painter now Krabbé. In 2008, Museum De Fundatie in Zwolle in its location, the exhibition Palace on the Blijmarkt, Jeroen Krabbé, painter – a retrospective presented.