Ruth Jacobi
Ruth Jacobi (born May 15, 1899 in Posen , † September 21, 1995 in California ) was a German photographer .
Ruth Jacobi came from a family of photographers. Her great-grandfather Samuel Jacobi had apprenticed to Daguerre and founded a photography studio. Ruth and Lotte Jacobi were the daughters of Samuel's grandson Sigismund and his wife Mia Jacobi, geb. Lublinski. You grew up in Poznan.
Ruth Jacobi learned her trade from 1920 at the Lette-Verein's Photography School in Berlin , then worked for five years in her family's new photo studio at 5 Joachimstaler Strasse , later Kurfürstendamm , and moved to New York in 1928 , where she lived, among other things documented by Jews in the Lower East Side. Returning to Europe in the early 1930s, she divorced her first husband Hans Richter in 1933 and then married the Hungarian doctor Maurus Roth in Budapest . The Jacobi-Roth couple emigrated to the USA in 1935. It lived there in Queens . Ruth Jacobi-Roth opened a photo studio in the USA, but eventually gave up her job to support her husband in the doctor's office.
There are 400 prints and a large number of negatives from her estate in the archive of the Jewish Museum Berlin . There were no exhibitions of her pictures during Ruth Jacobi's lifetime; however, some have been released. The dust jacket of Jews Without Money by Michael Gold showed their shots. Between 1937 and 1939 she was able to publish several pictures in Popular Photography . Some of her portraits of Albert Einstein were used in a biography of the scientist in 1939 and a photograph by Ruth Jacobi-Roth could also be seen in US Camera 1940 , an illustrated book commemorating the centenary of photography. In 2009 works by Jacobi were shown in Berlin.
literature
- Aubrey Pomerance, Jewish Museum Berlin (ed.): Ruth Jacobi. Photographs. Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89479-509-2
Web links
- Special exhibition
- Alexandra Kasjan: photographs by Ruth Jacobi. Review from December 15, 2008 on AVIVA-Berlin .de, accessed on May 1, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Iris Meder: Steffi Brandl - Rediscovery of a Photographer ( Memento of the original from May 14, 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. , in David, Jüdische Kulturzeitschrift, No. 103, December 2014, accessed on May 14, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacobi, Ruth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1995 |
| Place of death | California |