Paul Emil Jacobs

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Paul Emil Jacobs, drawn by Leopold Pollak , Rome 1845
Portrait of Jacobs on the stele shown below
Jacobs monument in Gotha,
design by Ludwig Bohnstedt
(from 1867) Location
Painting: Tepedelenli Ali Pascha and his wife Kira Vassiliki

Paul Emil Jacobs (born August 18, 1802 in Gotha ; † January 6, 1866 there ) was a German painter.

Life

Jacobs, son of the philologist Friedrich Jacobs , received his artistic education from the Gotha painter Friedrich Ludwig Theodor Doell after attending the Gotha School Illustre . From 1818 to 1825 he studied at the Munich Academy with Johann Peter and Robert von Langer and first made himself known through the box "Merkur, outwitting Argus". This is also where his picture "The Awakening of Lazarus" was created. In 1826 he went to Rome. It was here that the first drafts for his large work “The Crucifixion” were created in the workshop in Via Margutta . In 1828 he began working at the Berlin Academy and created the "Rape of Proserpina". Further stations in his professional life are Frankfurt a. M. (1829–1830), St Petersburg (1830–1834) (“Ascension of Christ” and “Last Supper” for the Smolna Monastery). In 1834 he created the oil portrait of his father Friedrich Jacobs . In 1835/1836 he painted a series of historical pictures in the Welfenschloss in Hanover. After a trip to Greece and Rome in 1838, he stayed in Gotha again in 1840, where he a. a. the altarpiece in the castle church, four allegories in the auditorium of the Myconius school , in the cath. Christ the King's Church in Gotha came the paintings “The Redeemer” and “Maria with the Child over Gotha”, the paintings “Luther” and “Melanchthon” hang in the Sankt Viti Church in Wechmar.

He demonstrated his mastery in rendering the naked and modeling in particular in the depiction of a “slave market” and in the “sleeping and waking naked boy”. Graceful representations of the female body are the "Greek woman at the toilet" and "the Turkish woman playing zither". His picture from “A Thousand and One Nights” is characterized by light effects, depicting the Scheherezade at the moment when the light first illuminates the room. Jacobs was also excellent as a portrait painter; The portraits of Goethe , Bretschneider , Rost, Döring, his father and others are lithographed by himself

The monumental altar painting "Kalvarienberg", which Jacobs created in 1844 for the Augustinian Church in Gotha, was removed there in 1939 when the church was rebuilt; it has been in the Hohenleuben church since 1998 .

Jacobs was married to Louise Jahn, his grandson Emil Jacobs (1868–1940) was a librarian and head of the university library in Freiburg i. Br., From 1929 first director of the Prussian State Library in Berlin and honorary professor for library science there.

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Emil Jacobs  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Schumann:  Jacobs, Emil . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 615-617.
  2. ^ A b Axel Holck : Jacobs ['ja.kåps], Paul Emil . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 12 : Hvene – Jernbaner . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1922, p. 744 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  3. ↑ picture and description
personal data
SURNAME Jacobs, Paul Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1866
Place of death Gotha