Photogenic
Artist
Lotte Jacobi
(American, born Poland, 1896 - 1990)
Dateca. 1950
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches (24.13 x 19.69 cm)
Framed: 19 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches (48.9 x 41.28 cm)
Framed: 19 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches (48.9 x 41.28 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4045
InscribedSignature
Signed in artist's hand
Front of Print
Artist's Stamp
"Please Credit / Photo by Lotte Jacobi / Hillsboro, N.H."
Verso
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Before fleeing Nazi Germany to settle in New York in 1935, Lotte Jacobi was an accomplished portrait photographer. Influenced by 1920s modernist abstraction and the New Vision, Jacobi made a series of cameraless images called photogenics between 1946 and 1955. These images are distinguished
by their formal beauty and tonal delicacy.
by their formal beauty and tonal delicacy.
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY by 1986;
Purchased from Edwynn Houk Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1986;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Purchased from Edwynn Houk Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1986;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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