Meinhard Jacoby

Self-portrait around 1912 by the German painter and sculptor Meinhard Jacoby. Privately owned.

Meinhard Jacoby (born October 10, 1873 in Vienna , † September 24, 1956 in Paraíba do Sul , Brazil ) was a German painter, sculptor, medalist, graphic artist and craftsman who emigrated to Brazil.

Life

Meinhard Jacoby was the son of the copper engraver Louis Jacoby , who came from a Jewish family in Havelberg and taught in Vienna . After attending the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium in Berlin (Abitur 1892) he studied painting and sculpture at the art academies in Berlin, Munich (with Paul Hoecker ) and at the Académie Julian in Paris . In 1904 he bought a studio house in Mölln for the summer . On World War I he took part in the reserve as a lieutenant participated in an artillery unit on the Eastern Front. Jacoby worked from 1912 to the 1920s as a teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Charlottenburg and lived in Grunewald . In the 1920s he lived in Brazil for eight years on his estate near Mendes near Rio de Janeiro . In 1934/35 he went back to Brazil and did not return to Germany due to the political situation. According to his own communication, he lived in Paraíba do Sul in the state of Rio de Janeiro around 1955 .

Jacoby painted portraits, genre pictures and landscapes, as a sculptor he created portrait busts, medals and plaques. He also worked as a commercial artist and book illustrator and also used his own etchings and woodcuts. His larger commissions included the painting of the citizen school in Berlin-Weißensee , the lyceum and the town hall in Kolberg .

In the field of entomology Meinhard Jacoby dealt with leaf cutter ants and their control and published numerous articles in magazines. In 1931 he received a patent for a means to eradicate leaf- cutting ants, and in 1935 with the chemist Hans Schmalfuß he received another patent for a method to eradicate nest-building insects.

The Meinhard-Jacoby-Weg in Mölln is named after him.

Publications

Wolfgang von Oettingen : Berlin. Book decorations by Meinhard Jacoby (= sites of culture. Volume 1). Klinkhard & Biermann, Leipzig 1907.
Otto Schell : Altbergische houses in pictures and words. With 20 collotype plates and 90 text illustrations based on original photos by Wilhelm Fülle and 1 original woodcut by Meinhard Jacoby. Abundance, Barmen 1907.
Schwerin Castle. Colored stone drawing by Meinhard Jacoby (= From Germany. No. 614). Voigtländer, Leipzig 1910.
A time mirror in six etchings. Under the wheel, swamp, mammon, nerd, hypnosis, the devil's face. undated (approx. 1910).
A saúva. Uma inteligencia nociva. Serviço de Informaçâo Agrícola, Rio de Janeiro 1946. 2nd edition 1950 (Portuguese).

literature

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 .
Maximilian Rohe: Meinhard Jacoby. In: The graphic arts. 55, 1932, pp. 89-92 ( digitized version ).
Meinhard Jacoby . In: Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Founded by Joseph Kürschner . 8th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1954, OCLC 257208466 , p. 540 .
Jacoby, Meinhard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 519 .
Martin Heidemann: Medal art in Germany from 1895 to 1914 (= The Art Medal in Germany. Volume 8). Berlin 1998, p. 500.

Christian Lopau: "The city of Ratzeburg has a significant interest in acquiring this property." Persecution of Jews in the Duchy of Lauenburg. In: Gerhard Paul, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach (ed.): Menora and swastika. On the history of the Jews in and from Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck and Altona (1918–1998). Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1998, ISBN 3-529-06149-2 , p. 365 (with picture).

Web links

Painting: Sugar cane harvest in Brazil , auctioned at Dorotheum, Vienna, February 27, 2014

Individual evidence

↑ 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.
↑ Heinz Wegener: The Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium - the State School Templin. A Berlin-Brandenburg high school in the maelstrom of German history 1607–2007. Story Verlag, Berlin 2007, p. 510.
^ Matriculation 1896 of the Munich Art Academy.
↑ matrikel 1897 the Academie Julian in Paris.
↑ Meinhard Jacoby: Something about art and applied arts in the occupied Russian territories. In: Kunstgewerbeblatt. NF 28, 1917, pp. 88-89 ( digitized version ).
↑ Jacoby, Meinhard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 519 .
↑ Martin Heidemann: Medal art in Germany from 1895 to 1914 (= The Art Medal in Germany. Volume 8). Berlin 1998, p. 500.

^ Wilhelm Ostwald: Monumental and decorative pastel. Leipzig 1912, p. 21 ( digitized version ).

↑ For example, about the nest building of the leaf cutter ant Atta sexdens L. In: Anzeiger für pest science . 11, 1935, pp. 115-117.
Observações e experiências sobre Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel visando facilitar seu combate. In: Boletim do Ministério da Agricultura. 32, 5, 1943, pp. 1-54.
Exploring the nest of the leaf cutter ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel. In: Journal of Applied Entomology. 34, 1953, pp. 145-169 and 37, 1955, pp. 129-152.
A special type of cavities in nests of the Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel. In the Journal of Applied Entomology. 46, 1960, pp. 34-41.

^ Database of the German Patent and Trademark Office .

^ Database of the German Patent and Trademark Office ;
Meinhard Jacoby, Hans Schmalfuß: To combat the leaf cutter ant Atta sexdens L. The spread of poisonous gases in the nest. In: Scoreboard for pest science. 11, 1935, pp. 85-89.

personal data
SURNAME	Jacoby, Meinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jakoby, Meinhard Joachim Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and sculptor, entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 10, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	September 24, 1956
Place of death	Paraíba do Sul , Brazil

[1] 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.

[2] Heinz Wegener: The Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium - the State School Templin. A Berlin-Brandenburg high school in the maelstrom of German history 1607–2007. Story Verlag, Berlin 2007, p. 510.

[3] Matriculation 1896 of the Munich Art Academy.

[4] trikel 1897 the Academie Julian in Paris.

[5] Meinhard Jacoby: Something about art and applied arts in the occupied Russian territories. In: Kunstgewerbeblatt. NF 28, 1917, pp. 88-89 ( digitized version ).

[6] Jacoby, Meinhard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 519 .

[7] Martin Heidemann: Medal art in Germany from 1895 to 1914 (= The Art Medal in Germany. Volume 8). Berlin 1998, p. 500.

[8] Wilhelm Ostwald: Monumental and decorative pastel. Leipzig 1912, p. 21 ( digitized version ).

[9] For example, about the nest building of the leaf cutter ant Atta sexdens L. In: Anzeiger für pest science . 11, 1935, pp. 115-117.
Observações e experiências sobre Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel visando facilitar seu combate. In: Boletim do Ministério da Agricultura. 32, 5, 1943, pp. 1-54.
Exploring the nest of the leaf cutter ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel. In: Journal of Applied Entomology. 34, 1953, pp. 145-169 and 37, 1955, pp. 129-152.
A special type of cavities in nests of the Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel. In the Journal of Applied Entomology. 46, 1960, pp. 34-41.

[10] Database of the German Patent and Trademark Office .

[11] Database of the German Patent and Trademark Office ;
Meinhard Jacoby, Hans Schmalfuß: To combat the leaf cutter ant Atta sexdens L. The spread of poisonous gases in the nest. In: Scoreboard for pest science. 11, 1935, pp. 85-89.