Rudolph Jacobi Art

Rudolph Jacobi apprenticed as a painter of stage sets and attended the Royal Academy in Berlin. In 1921, he married painter and pacifist Anna "Annot" Ottonie Krigar-Menzel, with whom he founded the Annot School of Painting. Although he began as an Impressionist, he became a measured Expressionist, though he also painted numerous landscapes, cityscapes and portraits. The Jacobi family emigrated to New York in 1934, and they reopened the Annot School in Rockefeller Centre. His works were acquired by museums in New York and other American cities, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Springfield Museum. During the 1930s and 1940s, the Jacobi family lived in New York and Gloucester, Massachusetts. They moved to Puerto Rico in 1956 and returned to Germany in 1967, settling in Munich.