Otto Reinhold Jacobi

Canadian autumn , 1870

Indian boy in front of a Canadian village

Otto Reinhold Jacobi (* 1812 in Königsberg ; † 1901 in Ardoch , North Dakota , USA) was a German painter .

Jacobi studied from 1830 in Berlin at the Royal Academy of the Arts. He then went to the Düsseldorf Art Academy to study with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer . In Düsseldorf he appeared with landscapes from the Hunsrück, the Eifel and the Ruhr Valley.

He made a career as a landscape and genre painter in Nassau and Canada. In 1837 he was appointed court painter to Wiesbaden by the Duchess of Nassau . In those years Jacobi also gave the young Ludwig Knaus his first lessons in oil painting and recommended that he study with Karl Ferdinand Sohn at the Düsseldorf Academy .

He worked in Wiesbaden until 1860 and in the same year emigrated to Canada , where he settled in Montreal . He quickly made contact with the local artists. For a short time he was a teacher at the Ontario College of Art & Design , the largest and oldest university for art and design in Canada. Over the years he became one of the most successful 19th century painters in Canada. He exhibited his works annually at the Art Association of Montreal and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts , founded in 1880 , of which he became president in 1890.

Illustrations (selection)

In: Reinick, Robert. Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. - between 1836 and 1852.
- Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. - Düsseldorf: Schulgen-Bettendorff, 1838, colored portfolio edition. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. - Düsseldorf: Schulgen-Bettendorff, 1838. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. - Düsseldorf: Buddeus, between 1839 and 1846. Digitized edition of the University and State Library of Düsseldorf
- Songs by a painter with drawings by his friends on the margins. - Leipzig: Vogel, approx. 1852. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

^ Museum Wiesbaden, American landscape with cows by the water , undated, oil / canvas. - 21.5 × 32.5 cm, inv. No .: M 171; Three peasant women from the Idstein area , 1851, oil / oak wood - 26 × 36 cm, inv. No .: M 419
^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 127 ( digitized version )

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Jacobi, Otto Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1812
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH	1901
Place of death	Ardoch , North Dakota , USA

[1] Museum Wiesbaden, American landscape with cows by the water , undated, oil / canvas. - 21.5 × 32.5 cm, inv. No .: M 171; Three peasant women from the Idstein area , 1851, oil / oak wood - 26 × 36 cm, inv. No .: M 419

[2] Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, p. 127 ( digitized version )