Jean Jacoby
Art competitions • Illustration — Self-portrait (1935) • Illustration — The drawing Rugby earned Jacoby a gold medal in 1928. Jean Lucien Nicolas Jacoby (March 26, 1891 – September 9, 1936) was a Luxembourgish artist. He won Olympic gold medals in the Olympic art competitions of 1924 and 1928, making him the most successful Olympic artist ever.
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Jean Jacoby
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- Born
- 1891 · Luxembourg.
- Died
- 1936 · Mulhouse.
- Nationality
- Luxembourg · France
- Occupation
- painter
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Art competitions • Illustration — Self-portrait (1935) • Illustration — The drawing Rugby earned Jacoby a gold medal in 1928. Jean Lucien Nicolas Jacoby (March 26, 1891 – September 9, 1936) was a Luxembourgish artist. He won Olympic gold medals in the Olympic art competitions of 1924 and 1928, making him the most successful Olympic artist ever.
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After spending his youth in Molsheim in Alsace, Jean Jacoby studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg. He was then a teacher of drawing from 1912 to 1918 at the Lewin-Funcke school in Berlin, then worked in Wiesbaden, before taking over the art department of a printing firm in Strasbourg. He became internationally known when in 1923 he won the French Concours de l'Auto with his drawing Hurdle runner, beating 4,000 other entrants. Jacoby often depicted sports in his works, also designing Luxembourg postage stamps for the 1952 Summer Olympics. He himself was featured on a Luxembourg postage stamp in 2016. From 1926 to 1934 he worked as an illustrator and artistic director for two newspapers of the Ullstein-Verlag, the Berliner Illustrierte and the Grüne Post. He also founded a radio programme guide for all of Germany, called Sieben Tage. In 1934 he moved to Mulhouse, where he died in 1936 of a heart attack. His second wife was Maria née Kasteleiner.
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* Jean Jacoby: Am Goldgiessen (la rue d'Or à Strasbourg) Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg, NIM27521
Jean Jacoby
*Jean Jacoby: Am Breuschstaden (1917). Strasbourg, quai de la Bruche. Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg, NIM27526
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1891
Jean Jacoby born at Luxembourg.
1936
Jean Jacoby died at Mulhouse.
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- 1.Jos Welter, red. (1993) Rétrospective : Cent ans d'art luxembourgeois 1893-1993. Luxemburg: Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg / Crauthem: Lux-Print.
- 2."Jean Jacoby", Olympedia.
- 3.Burgerlijke stand van Luxemburg-Stad: geboorten 1891, akte 156.
- 4.Lambert Herr (2001) Signatures, portraits et auto-portraits : artistes plasticiens au Luxembourg. Luxemburg: Éditions Saint-Paul. . p. 143.
- 5.Ralph Letsch, "Das „Hürdenleben” des Jean Jacoby (1891–1936)" , Tagungsdokumentation Kunst - Sport - Literatur : Vorträge des gleichnamigen Jubiläums-Symposiums im Kloster Maulbronn. Hildesheim: Arete Verlag Christian Becker. p. 57-59.
- 6.Pierre Gricius (2018) "The Only Artist to Win Two Olympic Gold Medals", Journal of Olympic history, vol. 26, no 3, 2018, p. 61-67.
- 7.Zie voor zijn werk onder andere de Catalogue Raisonne op de website van Eric Romang over Jacoby en de verzameling affiches in de collectie van de Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- 8.M.W. "Jean Jacoby der Meister der Olympiaden", A-Z : Luxemburger illustrierte Wochtenschrift, nr. 45, 8 november 1936, p. 16-18.
- 9.Door het Verdrag van Versailles was Elzas-Lotharingen toegewijzen aan Frankrijk. Jacoby verloor de Duitse nationaliteit en besloot niet de Franse aan te nemen, maar de Luxemburgse (Gricius, 2018).
- 10.Pierre Gricius (2010) "Painter Jean Jacoby and sculptor Frantz Heldenstein", Journal of Olympic history, vol. 18, no 1, 2010, p. 9-16.
- 11."Einweihung des Stade und Gedenksteins Jean Jacoby", A-Z : Luxemburger illustrierte Wochtenschrift, nr. 31, 1 augustus 1937, p. 4-6.
- 12."Arts et sports in Schifflingen vom 11. bis 21. August", A-Z : Luxemburger illustrierte Wochtenschrift, nr. 33, 14 augustus 1938, p. 14.
- 13."The Race".
- 14."Jean Jacoby", Post Luxembourg.
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