Lotte Jacobi

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Photomontage of her portrait by Egon Erwin Kisch

Lotte Jacobi (born August 17, 1896 in Thorn , West Prussia , † May 6, 1990 in Concord , New Hampshire ) was a German photographer in the fields of portraits, theater and art.

life and work

Jacobi came from the fourth generation of a Jewish family of photographers and grew up in Posen from the age of two ; In 1921 the family went to Berlin . After completing her training - initially with her father - Lotte Jacobi studied film and photography in Munich from 1925 to 1927 . Then she took over her father's studio in Berlin. Already at that time she was known as a photographer of artists and art. Her pictures have appeared in magazines such as the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung or the Münchner Illustrierte Presse . At the end of the 1920s, Lotte Jacobi made the acquaintance of the Italian photographer Tina Modotti . In September 1930 Modotti exhibited her photographs in Jacobi's gallery.

When the National Socialist regime made work almost impossible for the Jew Lotte Jacobi from 1933 onwards, she initially worked under various pseudonyms, also supported by the Schostal agency . However, Jacobi was ultimately forced to emigrate. Her studio at Kurfürstendamm 35 in Berlin, which she ran with her sister Ruth Jacobi , was taken over by the photographer Hein Gorny . She moved to New York in 1935 with her son from their divorced marriage . Here she married the Berlin publisher Erich Reiss († 1951) in 1940 , who had emigrated to New York via Sweden in 1939. She lived in the city until 1955 and portrayed American and emigrated European intellectuals, writers and artists.

After Lotte Jacobi left New York, she settled in rural Deering, New Hampshire, where she reopened a studio and also exhibited works by young artists. Her estate comprises 47,000 negatives.

She has portrayed the following personalities, among others: Berenice Abbott , WH Auden , Claire Bauroff , Martin Buber , Marc Chagall , WEB Du Bois , Albert Einstein , Robert Frost , Heinrich George , Valeska Gert , Emil Jannings , Egon Erwin Kisch , Käthe Kollwitz , Pauline Koner , Lotte Lenya , Peter Lorre , Thomas Mann , Max Schreck , Max Planck , Paul Robeson , Eleanor Roosevelt , May Sarton , JD Salinger , Edward Steichen , Alfred Stieglitz , Grete Sultan , Kurt Weill , Chaim Weizmann .

Her characteristic works also include the experimental photo graphics created in the 1940s and 1950s, created without a camera, later works called "photogenics" by Leo Katz .

In 1983 Lotte Jacobi was awarded the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize of the German Society for Photography for her life's work.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1973 Solo exhibition, Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • 1990 Solo exhibition, Folkwang Museum, Essen
  • 1997 Solo exhibition, Atelier Lotte Jacobi Berlin, New York. , The Hidden Museum , Berlin
  • 2012 Lotte Jacobi - Photographs. - Cologne Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum , (September 14, 2012 - January 6, 2013)
  • 2013 Artists in Dialogue , Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin
  • 2014 Artists in Dialogue , Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin

literature

  • Marion Beckers, Elisabeth Moortgat: Lotte Jacobi. Russia 1932/33 - Moscow, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. Berlin: Nishen, 1988. ISBN 3-88940-614-9
  • Jutta Dick, Marina Sassenberg (ed.): Jewish women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Lexicon on life and work. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1993. ISBN 3-499-16344-6
  • Marion Beckers, Elisabeth Moortgat: Atelier Lotte Jacobi Berlin, New York. Berlin: Nicolai, 1997. ISBN 3-87584-634-6
  • Hannelore Fischer (Ed.): Lotte Jacobi Photographien. with a contribution by Marion Beckers and Elisabeth Moortgat. Cologne: Wienand, 2012. ISBN 978-3-86832-132-6
  • Petra Gördüren, Dirk Luckow (Eds.): Dopplereffekt. Images in Art and Science. Kunsthalle zu Kiel January 31 to May 2, 2010. DuMont, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-9295-2
  • Lotte Jacobi: Theater & Dance Photographs. With a foreword by Cornell Capa . The Countryman Press, Woodstock 1982, ISBN 978-0914378938

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christiane Barckhausen: Tina Modotti - Dividing the moon into three parts , Wiljo Heinen, Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3939828884
  2. ↑ Lotte Jacobi-Werkschau 2012 in Cologne ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 24, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kollwitz.de
  3. ↑ Exhibition from August 22 , 2013 to October 6, 2013 : Artists in Dialogue - Paintings, Photographs and Sculptures ( Memento from September 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ 25 female painters and photographers on the subject of »Landscape and Face«
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobi, Lotte Johanna; Jacobi Reiss, Johanna Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American portrait, theater and art photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorn, East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1990
Place of death Concord, New Hampshire