biographie de Lotte JACOBI (1896-1990)
Birth place: Germany
Addresses: NYC (immigrated 1935); Deering, NH, 1984
Profession: Photographer
Studied: Bavarian Acad. Photogr.; Univ. Munich; her father.
Exhibited: Royal Photogr. Salon, Tokyo, 1931 (med).
Comments: A portrait photographer, she was active in Berlin 1927-35; fled Nazi Germany, opening studio in NYC. Her best known portraits are of Einstein, E. Roosevelt, R. Frost, Steichen, Stieglitz, and Strand. Also known for her photogenics," cameraless abstract light prints.
Sources: Witkin & London, 169"