Peter Jacobi (artist)

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Sculpture modular column (1990/92), Pforzheim

Peter Jacobi (born November 11, 1935 in Ploiesti / Romania) is a German sculptor and photographer .

Life

Jacobi studied sculpture at the Bucharest Art Academy from 1955 to 1961. He had his first solo exhibition in 1965 in the Simeza Gallery, Bucharest. In 1970 he moved to Germany and received German citizenship. From 1971 until his retirement in 1998 he held a professorship at the Pforzheim University of Design . He took part in the 9th Antwerp Biennale in the Middelheim Museum in 1967 and in the 12th São Paulo Biennale in 1973 (with Ritzi Jacobi). In the 1990s he exhibited again in Romania, including in Bucharest, Craiova, Brasov, Sibiu and Timisoara.

Jacobi is a member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg. He lives and works in Wurmberg / Enzkreis.

Awards

  • 1973 Arte Communication Prize at the São Paulo Biennale
  • 2002 Ion Andreescu Prize of the Romanian Academy (on the occasion of the retrospective in the Romanian National Gallery)
  • 2003 Transylvanian-Saxon Culture Prize of the Landsmannschaften of the Transylvanian Saxons in Germany and Austria
  • 2008 Erich Heckel Prize of the Friends of the Baden-Württemberg Artists Association for his life's work
  • 2016 Romanian Order of Cultural Merit, officer rank, Fine Arts category

Solo exhibitions (selection)

A catalog was published for the exhibitions marked with "K", those marked with * are collaborative works by Peter and Ritzi Jacobi.

  • 1970 Venice Biennale, Romanian Pavilion *
  • 1971 Municipal Museum, Regensburg; Märkisches Museum, Witten K, *
  • 1976/77 Kunsthalle Mannheim K, *
  • 1977 State Art Gallery Baden-Baden K, *
  • 1978 Museum Bellerive , Zurich *, with brochure
  • 1980 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne / National Gallery of Western Australia, Perth [touring exhibition] K, *
  • 1981 Institute of Arts, Detroit / Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chicago / The Los Angeles County Museum of Art [traveling exhibition] K, *
  • 1982 Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg; Liljevachs Konstholl, Stockholm K, *
  • 1984 Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris K, *
  • 1984 Month of Photography , Bratislava
  • 1993 ONDEA, Bucharest [traveling exhibition] K
  • 1994 Muzeul de Arta, Brasov (Kronstadt) / Muzeul National de Arte, Brukenthal Sibiu (Hermannstadt) / Muzeul Judetean, Bistrita (Bistritz) / Muzeul de Arta, Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg) / Muzeul Banatului, Timisoara (Temeschwar) [traveling exhibition]
  • 1999 Polish Museum of Contemporary Sculpture in Oronsko / Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg [traveling exhibition] K
  • 2002 Muzeul Național de Artă al României , Bucharest K
  • 2006 Foundation for Concrete Art Roland Phleps , Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 2007 Muzeul Național de Istorie a României , Bucharest
  • 2009 Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum , Ulm, and Kulturzentrum am Gasteig , Munich
  • 2010/11 Peter Jacobi: Sculptural Seeing, Kunstverein Pforzheim, Reuchlinhaus [traveling exhibition] K

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From 1964, when Ritzi (* 1941 Bucharest) and Peter Jacobi met in Bucharest, until the mid-1980s they worked together as an artist couple. In the 1960s and 1970s they became known for their textile wall reliefs, later works made of fibers, paper and stone moved into focus.

From 1979 Jacobi turned to black and white photography and captured still visible traces of the western wall - bunkers, trenches and anti-tank barriers - with photographs. After the fall of the Wall, Jacobi traveled to Transylvania , where he documented the partly desolate state of the Transylvanian fortified churches after the emigration of the German population in detail and vividly and presented it in two photo volumes as a cultural heritage worth protecting.

A significant part of his work revolves around topics such as time, remembrance, memory and World War II. Jacobi regards his memorial for the victims of the Holocaust in Romania in Bucharest (2009) as his most important project . Commissioned by the Romanian government, it commemorates the victims of the Romanian fascist regime under Ion Antonescu. The restrained, open concept of the monument, which remains suspended between articulation and non-articulation, leaves the viewer space for their own reflections and feelings.

Jacobi's sculptural work is determined by geometric-abstract forms; he mostly works in the materials steel, concrete, slate, bronze and iron.

"The column remains the geometric principle throughout his memorials, as a tangible connection between place, history and transcendence."

- Simona Nastac

Works in public space (selection)

Several of Jacobi's sculptures are set up in public spaces :

  • Floor relief, enclosed (1980). Gray granite, City of Lahr Collection, Marktplatz
  • Preliminary study for 'Wurmberger Column' (1981–1982). Pforzheim jewelry museum
  • Italian column (1981–1982), bronze sheet, city center of Wurmberg
  • Open Construction (1984). Steel, 420 cm high, Beijing Forest Sculpture Park Collection
  • Resurrection (1986-1989). Painted steel, 420 cm high, Stuttgart-Stammheim
  • Construct / Deconstruct (1999). V2A steel, 310 cm high. Yuzi Paradise Sculpture Park, Guilin / South China
  • Holocaust Memorial (2009). Bucharest
  • Modular pillar (2010–2011). Pforzheim jewelry museum
  • Modular column with 24 modules (2012). Corten steel, 12 m high. Sculpture park of the city of Wuhu / China
  • three-part installation, passage through the Volksbank headquarters, Pforzheim
  • Granite fountain, Wurmberg
  • Granite fountain, town hall of the municipality of Wimsheim
  • Resurrection . Concrete, reinforced stainless steel, 410 cm high, Sibelius Park, Helsinki

  • Resurrection (1986-1989), Stuttgart-Stammheim

  • Preliminary study for the Wurmberger column (1981–1982), Stadtgarten Pforzheim

  • Modular column (2010–2011), Stadtgarten Pforzheim

Publications

  • Transylvania - pictures of a journey - fortified and fortified churches. A report: Pelegrin prin Transilvania. Word + World + Image, 2007
  • Transylvania - Pictures from a Journey II: Fortified and church castles - Still life after the Exodus. Schiller Verlag, 2017

literature

  • Dorothée Bauerle, Peter Jacobi (design): Peter Jacobi . Exhibition catalog, art and trade association, Pforzheim, 1987
  • Jacobi, Peter; Greschat, Isabel (ed.): Peter Jacobi: Arbeit = works. Kehrer, Heidelberg / Berlin, 2010 [Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition 'Peter Jacobi: Absent anwesend', December 12, 2010 to March 13, 2011 in the Pforzheim Gallery / 'Peter Jacobi: Still Life after the Exodus - Transylvanian Wehrkirchen' in the Kulturhaus Osterfeld / 'Peter Jacobi: Sculptural Seeing' in the Kunstverein Pforzheim in the Reuchlinhaus / 'Peter Jacobi: The beautiful rural dress of the city woman' in the Volksbank Pforzheim]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Jacobi , Artists Association of Baden-Württemberg
  2. ↑ Sculptorul Jacobi, mai cunoscut in strainatate decat in Romania , artline.ro
  3. ↑ Sculptorul Jacobi, mai cunoscut in strainatate decat in Romania (artline.ro)
  4. ^ Friends of the Baden-Württemberg Artists' Association
  5. ^ Great distinction for Peter Jacobi , Siebenbürgische Zeitung Online, October 13, 2016
  6. ↑ Ritzi et Peter Jacobi , textile / art
  7. ↑ Memorial opened to commemorate the Romanian Holocaust , Siebenbürgische Zeitung Online, October 23, 2009
  8. ↑ In: PETER JACOBI n.1935 Ploiesti , Sculptură x Arhitectură
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Ploiesti