© Lotte Jacobi Collection, University of New Hampshire
On view
Photography
Sommerliches Strassenbild mit Kaffeehausterrasse (Summertime Street Scene with Outdoor Café),
ca. 1930
Lotte Jacobi, 1896–1990; born Toruń, West Prussia (Poland); died Concord, NH; active Berlin, Germany, and New York, NY
2014-4
Jacobi studied photography and film at the Bavarian State Academy of Photography and the University of Munich before taking over her father’s photographic studio in Berlin, where she established her reputation as a virtuoso of the celebrity portrait. Outside of her commercial practice, Jacobi experimented with new approaches to photography and composition. This bird’s-eye view renders the convivial scene of an outdoor café in Berlin into a vertiginous pattern of paving stones, circular tabletops, and summer hats to emphasize the unusual perspectives offered by the rising building heights of the modern city.
Information
Title
Sommerliches Strassenbild mit Kaffeehausterrasse (Summertime Street Scene with Outdoor Café)
Dates
ca. 1930
Maker
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
23.4 × 17.6 cm (9 3/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
mat: 49.8 × 39.4 cm (19 5/8 × 15 1/2 in.)
mat: 43.2 × 35.6 cm (17 × 14 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2014-4
Place Made
Europe, Germany
Marks/Labels/Seals
On verso, typed caption label
On verso, red photographerʼs stamp: 24 Central Park South, WI. 2-3600
Culture
Techniques
The artist. [Kunsthandel Jörg Maaß, Berlin, Germany]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2014.
