Lotte Jacobi Signed Photo of Albert Renger-Patzsch 

JACOBI, Lotte. A vintage gelatin silver print of Jacobi’s elegantly composed portrait of her friend and colleague, renowned photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966). Signed by Jacobi in blue ink at lower right as "Lotte Jacobi". Wamel, Germany, circa 1963. Attractively matted and framed to an overall size of 14" x 16". In near fine condition.

Forced to flee Germany in the 1930s, Lotte Jacobi made her first trip back to Europe in the early 1960s. In Germany, she visited Albert Renger-Patzsch, whose work she had admired for years but with whom she had never met. Shortly after her return home, Jacobi showed Renger-Patzsch's photographs in her gallery in Deering, New Hampshire. Renger-Patzsch's images "have an unwavering precision that is almost painful in its purity" (New York Times). Through this, Renger-Patzsch became known as a "master of the dynamic close-up" (Parr & Badger I:125). Like Jacobi, much of Renger-Patzsch's early photographic work was lost in the war. Jacobi took this eloquently crafted image of her fellow photographer, standing at the edge of the picture frame and framed again by the clean lines of a doorway, in Wamel, Germany, where he lived from 1945 until his death. 

Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black and white portrait photography, characterized by intimate and dramatic depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century. Jacobi is perhaps best known for her candid portrait of Albert Einstein (Princeton, 1938). Other famous subjects Jacobi photographed were Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Mann, Marc Chagall, and Chaim Weizmann.

This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.

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