Martin Jacoby-Boy

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Martin Jacoby-Boy (born August 31, 1883 in Berlin , † 1971 in Ingeniero Maschwitz near Buenos Aires ) was a German and Argentinian architect , film architect and graphic designer .

Life

Jacoby-Boy attended several art schools at home and abroad until 1906, including the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris . In addition, he was trained as a carpenter . Influenced by Expressionism , Jacoby-Boy tried his hand at first as a painter and graphic artist , later he also designed fonts, billboards and costumes. In 1912 he was appointed to the German Werkbund . Between 1912 and 1928 Jacoby-Boy was responsible, among other things, for the artistic design of the fonts Bravour , Verzierte Bravour and Jacobea .

From 1919 Jacoby-Boy concentrated on the work of a film architect for three years. The majority of his sometimes extremely elaborate film structures were created for the productions by Joe May . His set designs for the multi-part adventure films The Mistress of the World and The Indian Tomb deserve a mention . There he worked closely with his later famous colleagues Otto Hunte , Erich Kettelhut and Karl Vollbrecht . Jacoby-Boy was also one of the founders of the film city Woltersdorf near Berlin.

From 1922 Martin Jacoby-Boy worked primarily as an architect in his own office. As a Jew , he was banned from working by the National Socialists in 1933 . He then fled first to the Netherlands and in 1935 to Argentina , where some of his nephews were already living. Jacoby-Boy continued his work as an architect there and created designs for public clients, such as the Ministry of the Navy. As a graphic designer, he designed the magazine La suerte in 1941 . In the 1950s, Jacoby-Boy was temporarily back in Berlin. He spent his twilight years in a specially designed country house about 30 km north of Buenos Aires.

plant

Film architecture

graphic

  • 1915: for the shoe and textile department store Emil Jacoby at Friedrichstrasse 70 in Berlin (also Schuhwaren-Magazin Emil Jacoby) an advertising poster for the military boots it sells
  • 1915: “Give! - Sacrifice days 3rd-4th-5th December 1915 - Red Cross of Berlin "

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than is given ..." Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 583.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Samples in the Klingspor Museum , Offenbach (PDF).
  2. ↑ Poster text with illustration ( memento of the original from March 25, 2016 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 February 2, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / emuseum40.zhdk.ch
  3. ↑ Poster text with illustration ( memento of the original from March 25, 2016 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 February 2, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / emuseum40.zhdk.ch
personal data
SURNAME Jacoby-Boy, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, film architect, graphic designer and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1971
Place of death Ingeniero Maschwitz, Argentina