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 Lotte
Jacobi
1896-1990
Lotte
Jacobi was born in 1896 in Thorn, West Prussia. She worked
in the family studio in Berlin from 1927 until 1935, chronicling
the culture of the Weimar Republic, portraits of notable German
figures in the 1920s and 1930s - people whom the Hitler regime
tried to wipe from memory: dancers, actors, playwrights, writers,
clowns, celebrities, painters, philosophers, and statesmen.
She fled
German and established a studio in New York City where she
found herself in the company of fellow refugees, including
Albert Einstein whom she had photographed in Germany. She
made portraits of hundreds of notable people throughout her
long life including painter, Marc Chagall, Eleanor Roosevelt,
actor Peter Lorre, poets Marianne Moore and Robert Frost,
photographer Alfred Stieglitz, writer Thomas Mann, and cellist
Pablo Casals. She enjoyed making portraits of ordinary people
as well.
Her artform
was not limited to portraiture. In the 1950s, Jacobi developed
abstract photographs, called Photogenics. These images were
created without a camera by manipulating light, cellophane,
and other materials in the darkroom.
In 1955,
Lotte Jacobi moved permanently to her summer house in Deering,
NH and began a new phase of her career. Each period had its
own character: Berlin - theatre and art; New York - celebrities
and abstractions; New Hampshire - freedom and nature
The New
Hampshire State Council on the Arts awards the Lotte Jacobi
Living Treasure Award every two years at the Governors Awards
in the Arts. Recipients of the awards are New Hampshire artists
in any discipline, who make significant contributions to his/her
art form and to the arts community of New Hampshire reflecting
lifetime achievement.
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February 12, 2015
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