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Lecture on Annot Jacobi
Painter and peace activist
Annot Jacobi, Akt Blondes, 1926
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Lecture on Annot Jacobi on 20 June 2024, 7 pm
“There was no academy at that time where women were admitted”
Annot Jacobi – painter and peace activist
Art historian Victoria Hohmann-Vierheller presents the life and work of Annot Jacobi (1894-1981).
Jacobi, the grandniece of Adolph Menzel was a member of the Berlin Secession, the Association of Berlin Women Artists, exhibited at the Prussian Academy of Arts and was a founding member of the League for Human Rights and the Women's League for Peace and Freedom. From the 1920s onwards, she portrayed working women, artists and political activists in Germany and the USA, where she emigrated to in 1933. In addition to portrait painting, Jacobi devoted herself to still life painting as well as nudes and landscapes.
Victoria Hohmann-Vierheller studied art history at the Free University of Berlin. She is an author, editor and text artist and wrote her master’s thesis on Annot Jacobi, on whom she is currently conducting research.
The lecture will be held in German.
Admission fee 5,00 euros / reduced 3,00 euros
Further information:
“There was no academy at that time where women were admitted”
Annot Jacobi – painter and peace activist
Art historian Victoria Hohmann-Vierheller presents the life and work of Annot Jacobi (1894-1981).
Jacobi, the grandniece of Adolph Menzel was a member of the Berlin Secession, the Association of Berlin Women Artists, exhibited at the Prussian Academy of Arts and was a founding member of the League for Human Rights and the Women's League for Peace and Freedom. From the 1920s onwards, she portrayed working women, artists and political activists in Germany and the USA, where she emigrated to in 1933. In addition to portrait painting, Jacobi devoted herself to still life painting as well as nudes and landscapes.
Victoria Hohmann-Vierheller studied art history at the Free University of Berlin. She is an author, editor and text artist and wrote her master’s thesis on Annot Jacobi, on whom she is currently conducting research.
The lecture will be held in German.
Admission fee 5,00 euros / reduced 3,00 euros
Further information:
Price info: Admission € 5.00 / reduced € 3.00
Booking: No registration required.
Booking: No registration required.
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