Louis Jacoby

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Louis Jacoby, engraving by Ludwig Michalek (1882)

Louis Jacoby , also Jacobi (born June 7, 1828 in Havelberg , † November 11, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German engraver .

Life

Jacoby learned copper engraving from Eduard Mandel in Berlin from 1844 and made a series of engravings, partly in cardboard and partly in line style. The first of these was the Evangelist Johannes (after Alessandro Tiarini ), which was then followed by the Battle of the Hun, as well as the saga and story, for Duncker's edition of Kaulbach's wall paintings in the Neues Museum Berlin, and Lady Macbeth, sleepwalking , for Kaulbach 's Shakespeare gallery . In 1855 he went to Paris for four years , toured Spain and lived in Rome from 1860 to 1863 .

In 1863 he became professor of copper engraving at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and first brought a series of portrait engravings to Winterhalter , Kaulbach and his own drawings, as well as Alexander and Roxane , to Soddoma , and the cardboard boxes for the two curtains of the New Opera House in Vienna Rahl and Laufberger . He painted Raphael's School of Athens while in Rome .

In 1871 he received the Order of the Iron Crown 3rd Class and in 1872 became an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

From 1892 he lived in Berlin as an artistic advisor to the Reichsdruckerei and advisor for the artistic publications of the Berlin museums, where he was responsible for the gallery work.

Jacoby's engravings include: the portraits of the Austrian imperial couple as well as Karl Freiherr von Rokitansky , Peter Ritter von Cornelius , Ernst Karl Guhl , Theodor Mommsen , Wilhelm Henzen , Franz Grillparzer , General de la Motte-Fouqué , and Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenburg .

Jacoby's grave in the Jewish cemetery in Havelberg

Jacoby is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Havelberg .

His son Meinhard Jacoby (1873–1957) was a painter, sculptor, medalist, graphic artist and craftsman in Berlin and Mölln . He emigrated to Brazil under the pressure of the emerging National Socialism.

Exhibitions

  • Exhibition of works by the full members of the academy Prof. Fritz Werner , Prof. Louis Jacoby, to celebrate the completion of their 80th year, 1908: Königl. Academy d. Arts in Berlin March 8–5. April 1908, Union, 1908 (catalog)

literature

Web links

Commons : Louis Jacoby  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in: Vossische Zeitung of November 18, 1918.
  2. ↑ Wilhelm von Bode : My life. Volume 2, Berlin 1930, pp. 18-20 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Gerald Christopeit, From the history of the Jewish community in Havelberg. In: Stadt Havelberg (Hrsg.): Havelberg, small town with a great past. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-932776-11-9 , p. 163.
  4. ↑ Jacoby, Meinhard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 260-261 .
personal data
SURNAME Jacoby, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobi, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Havelberg
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1918
Place of death Berlin