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LOTTE JACOBI (1896-1990)
Portfolio No. II.
With 12 (of 12) photographs of Weimar-era Germany’s most illustrious film, dance,
and theatrical figures.With an introduction by Robert M. Doty, a title page, a list of photographs,
and a fourth sheet containing a short biography and a colophon. Silver prints, 7
1
/
4
x9
1
/
4
inches
(18.4x23.5 cm.), and the reverse, sheet size 11x12
1
/
2
inches (27.9x31.8 cm.), with Jacobi’s signature,
in pencil, on recto; each print is matted, with a debossed number on the overmat. Folio-sized gray
cloth clamshell box; contents loose as issued. 20
OF
25
NUMBERED COPIES
. New Hampshire: Deering,
1928-38; printed 1979
[8,000/12,000]
Claire Bauroff, Berlin,
c. 1928 *
Hanja Holm with dance group, New York,
c. 1938 *
Pauline Koner
(photomontage), New York,
c. 1937 *
Harold Kreutzberg, Berlin
, c. 1930 *
Head of a Dancer, Berlin,
c.
1929 *
Mary Wigman, Berlin,
c. 1930 *
Heinrich von Twardowski, Berlin,
c. 1932 *
Max Guelstorff,
Berlin,
c. 1931 *
Fritz Lang, director, producer; Erwin Piscator, director, producer; Reinhold Schuenzel, actor,
Berlin,
c. 1929 *
Heinrich George, Berlin,
c. 1932 *
“Merchant from Berlin,” byWalter Mehring , Nollendorf
Theatre, Berlin,
c. 1929 *
On the Stage, Berlin,
c. 1928.
According to her biographer, “Jacobi was the fourth generation of a family of photographers. Her
great grandfather met Daguerre.” Jacobi fled Nazi Germany in 1935, and for many decades operated
a portrait studio in NewYork City.