Carl Jacobson
Carl Jacobson first contacted me in 2003 when he offered me a diorama to be published in the Winter Issue of the web magazine : Don Quichote. That year he sent me 2 more diorama's: Tristam and Isolde, and Parsifal.
Then, as so often happens, silence, until early this summer I got a long email from him:
...............My ambitions for Model Theater has been, “How can I bring this beautiful art form into the 21 century?” This I thought was an art form that should be popular, not frail and on the verge of extinction. Why, the most popular enterprise of our time is Theater. We live and breath it every day. Stage, Motion Pictures, Television.
So, it has, and will be my pleasure to try to develop a theater that works like a real theater, and one that makes use of the direction already taken towards a creative child's mind, not to exclude the new adult hobbyists market which is monumental.....
He did not give an indication of any physical trouble but it appears he had developed Parkinson's Disease and it was progressing, so he was unsteady on his feet.
Then one day fell and injured his head badly and fell into a coma
We received the following, sad, message from his wife:
“After a week of no improvement, we finally released Carl from his body prison this morning - and let him fly, as the beautiful rainbow winged soul he is.
It is sad for us, but we have so many wonderful years and memories to sustain us.
Thank you for your friendship that he treasured.”
Carl would have become 75 this summer
