Jacob has always been fascinated by nude bodies.
He loves to admire nude women, but he also loves to show his own body, for instance as a nude model.
Already at the age of 18, he started to pose (click on the photo and/or the article in dutch below), what he continued to do irregulary.
In 1990-1991 he photographed et drew a vast number of nude female models. Their pleasure to show their body to a stranger reminded him of the pleasure he once had himself. Spontaneously, he wanted to pose like them, after a long period of abstination. After a short call to the Rotterdam Academy of Arts (Vrije Academie = Free Academy) he was accepted as a nude model, what pleased him very much, his age of 40 taken into account. (click on the photo below).
He then took advantage of his renewed vocation and posed elsewhere around Rotterdam for several art courses.
Here a drawing made by a pupil of the Rotterdam Free Academy (season '90-'91).
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And another (season '90-91)
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