1483 - Annot Jacobi (1894 Berlin – 1981 Munich)

Annot Jacobi (1894 Berlin – 1981 Munich) Still Life An expressive-realist and vividly colored work by the painter, who is among the leading female artists of the so-called “Lost Generation,” though she has been receiving greater attention in art history for some time now. Annot Jacobi, born Anna Ottonie Krigar-Menzel and the grandniece of Adolph Menzel, received her artistic training at the Drawing and Painting School of the Association of Berlin Women Artists and was a student of Lovis Corinth in 1915. In 1923, she married the painter Rudolf Jacobi, with whom she opened the “Annot” painting school in Berlin in 1928. Due to the Nazi regime’s forced closure of the art school for admitting Jewish students, they emigrated to the United States in 1933 and did not return to Germany until 1967, where Annot continued to paint into the 1970s. Oil on canvas; signed “Annot” on the reverse and dated 75. 120 cm x 89 cm. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated.