Heinrich Christian Jacobi (2 July 1866 - 3 March 1946) was a German architect and archaeologist, specializing in the Roman Empire. He was the son of Louis Jacobi, also an archaeologist of the Roman Empire, and his wife Henriette Will.
Early Life and Education
Heinrich Jacobi studied architecture from 1886 to 1891 at the Technischen Hochschule Charlottenburg and during his studies he belonged to the Landsmannschaft Normannia fraternity.
Career
From 1895 to 1896, he led excavations in Adamclisi in Romania and travelled to see excavations of Roman sites in north Africa. He was later Regierungsbauführer (referendary) in Marburg, where in 1896 he became Regierungsbaumeister (Assessor). In 1899, the Prussian government gave him a job in Homburg vor der Höhe. There he became a member of the Royal Buildings Council (Königlichen Baurat) and State Building Inspector (Landesbauinspektor), both in 1911.
Heinrich also collaborated with his father on the restoration of the Saalburg. The following year he succeeded his father as director of the Saalburgmuseum.
Military Service and Later Life
In autumn 1914 he became a Hauptmann of the Landwehr in the Ersatz-Bataillon of the 80th Fusilier Regiment in Wiesbaden. In 1915, he was put in command of a battalion of the 83rd Reserve Infantry Regiment in Homburg. After the end of the First World War he resumed his duties as director of the Saalburgmuseum.
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After his first wife's death in 1925, he remarried in 1926 to Henriette Louise Johanna Trapp, daughter of Eduard Christian Trapp. Heinrich also received an honorary doctorate in 1926.
Saalburg - a reconstructed Roman fort
Publications
- Das Erdkastell der Saalburg. Sonderdruck aus dem Saalburg Jahrbuch. Bericht des Saalburgmuseums VI. 1914/1924.
- Führer durch das Römerkastell Saalburg und Homburg vor der Höhe. Schudt, Homburg 1905. 7.
- Kleiner Führer durch die Saalburg und ihre Sammlungen. Führer durch die Saalburg und ihre Sammlungen. Taunusbote, Bad Homburg 1921. 27.
- Die Saalburg: Führer durch das Kastell und seine Sammlungen. Taunusbote, Bad Homburg 1929. 13.
- Die Homburger Eisenbahn und ihre Vorläufer. (in German)
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Lotte Jacobi's "Head of a Dancer"
Lotte Jacobi made Head of a Dancer while she was still living in Berlin, an entertainment capital during the Weimar Republic (1919-33). She came from a family of photographers. Her great-grandfather visited Paris between 1839 and 1842, purchased a camera and a license to use it, and according to family lore, was trained by the pioneering French portrait photographer Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre.
Her grandfather and her father ran the Atelier Jacobi. She grew up around her father’s photography studio, first in Posen (before it became Polish) until 1921, when they moved the business to Berlin. Jacobi made her first pictures with a pin-hole camera her father made for her in about 1909.
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Head of a Dancer is primarily a composition of visual elements-including a face- rather than a portrait. Movement is quietly implied by the composition through the interrupted spiral that begins at the chin and moves outward through the hat brim rather than any visible bodily movement having been captured in it.
The eyes meet the viewer’s gaze and are also positioned below the center of the frame. But then, nothing in the composition is truly centered. The chin is cut off by the photograph’s lower edge, and the oval of the hat’s wide, black brim is cropped on every side. The incomplete curve of the hat frames and isolates the face. It adds a dynamism and tension that makes the stillness and cut-off chin of the frontal face even more striking.
The title of Jacobi’s photograph informs us that this is no ordinary head. It is “the head of a dancer.” But really, it is only her face.
She would have left earlier, but her father’s ill health stalled her departure. Jacobi left Berlin behind in 1935 to avoid Nazi persecution as a Jewish woman, a leftist, and a so-called “Degenerate Artist.”
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