Abe Kuipers

Direction:

Buddy Hermans

Premiere:

4 November 2007

Duration:

35 min

This is an portrait of artist Abe Kuipers. Abe Kuipers (1918) looks back on his life and his work. He was born in Rotterdam, moved to Groningen as a very young man and attended the School of Arts (Minerva). He specialised in graphic design, but he also paints. In 1962 he became a teacher at the AKI, located in Enschede. He knew a lot of famous artists from the artist’s association “De Ploeg”; such as Werkman, Van der Zee and Hansen. During the nineteenseventies of the twentieth century, Kuipers became famous for his silk-screen prints and pastels. The film contains footage filmed by Kuipers himself with an 8mm camera in Groningen.

Director: Buddy Hermans
Camera: Willem van der Linde
Sound: Menno Knevel
Editing: René Duursma

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