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$release_date ='January 2, 2004';

$contact_1='Anne Scher/Alex Wittenberg<br>The Jewish Museum<br>212.423.3271';
$contact_1_email='pressoffice@thejm.org';


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$meta_desc='As the first of its special exhibitions during the centennial year, The Jewish Museum will present an extraordinary group of more than eighty vintage prints by Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990), a photographer who began her career in the cultural ferment of 1920s Berlin and, after spending two decades in New York City, concluded it in her adopted home of New Hampshire.';

$title='CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION';

$sub_title='<i>FOCUS ON THE SOUL: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF LOTTE JACOBI</i> ON VIEW AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM FEBRUARY 6 - APRIL 11';

$content='As the first of its special exhibitions during the centennial year, The Jewish Museum will present an extraordinary group of more than eighty vintage prints by Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990), a photographer who began her career in the cultural ferment of 1920s Berlin and, after spending two decades in New York City, concluded it in her adopted home of New Hampshire.

<p><i>Focus on the Soul: The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi</i> includes startlingly candid, penetrating portraits of figures from all periods of the artist\'s life: Lotte Lenya, Peter Lorre, Käthe Kollwitz, Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, J.D. Salinger, Berenice Abbott, Paul Robeson, and Marc Chagall, among others.  Also included are important documentary photographs (of subjects such as theatrical productions in Weimar Berlin and scenes of 1930s Soviet Russia and Central Asia) and Jacobi\'s innovative "photogenics," abstract pictures made in the darkroom without a camera.</p>


<p><i>Focus on the Soul: The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi</i> has been organized by the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, an institution with which the artist had a long association. After being shown at The Jewish Museum in New York City, the exhibition will travel to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (June 18 - September 5, 2004).</p>


<p> Born in 1896 in the Prussian town of Thorn (now part of Poland) into a Jewish family of professional photographers, Jacobi became one of the Weimar era\'s outstanding women artists.  She fled the Nazi regime in 1935, leaving behind most of her archive.  From 1935 to 1955 she lived in New York City, where she photographed prominent émigrés and American intellectuals, sometimes working as a photojournalist (for publications such as <i>The New York Times</i>).  She moved to Deering, New Hampshire, in 1955, where she remained active through the 1980s.</p><p><i>Focus on the Soul: The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi</i> was sponsored by Bank of New Hampshire, a division of Banknorth, N.A.; Ernst & Young; and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.  The Jewish Museum\'s presentation of the exhibition is supported by The Morris S. and Florence H. Bender Foundation.  Additional support is provided by The Alfred J. Grunebaum Memorial Fund.</p>';

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