Joris Johannes Christiaan (Chris) Lebeau (1878 - 1945) was a
Dutch designer, painter and anarchist..jpg) |
| Self-portrait, 1941 |
Lebeau professed his beliefs with great vehemence. He called
himself a religious anarcho-communist. In 1904 he was co-founder of the Dutch
Association for Craft and Industrial Art (VANK).
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| Portrait of Sukadari K.U. Pakunigrat, 1933 |
After the National Socialists came to power in Germany in 1933,
Lebeau entered into a marriage of convenience with a German Jewish refugee. In
the same period, he took Sixta Heddema as a student under his care. During the
occupation, Lebeau and Heddema used their artistic knowledge to forge
documents. On November 3, 1943, Lebeau, his wife and Heddema were arrested for
helping Jewish Dutchmen. He could be released if he promised to abstain from
illegal work, but he declined. He was sent to the Dachau concentration camp on
25 May 1944. He died there of exhaustion.
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