Annot Jacobi, Still Life, Around 1920, German/US Painter of the Berlin Secession, Oil on Canvas

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Annot Jacobi
Berlin 1894 - 1981 Munich
Still Life
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Size: 65 x 50 cm
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Berlin 1894 - 1981 Munich
Still Life
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Size: 65 x 50 cm
Frame: 73 x 58 cm
Good original condition, minor paint flaking (see photos)
Authenticity will be confirmed in writing.

Annot came from an upper-class academic family. Her father, Otto Krigar-Menzel, was a professor of theoretical physics at the Technical University of Berlin, and her mother, Jacoba Krigar-Menzel, née Elling, was a trained classical singer. Her godparents included the composer Johannes Brahms and the painter Adolph Menzel, who was also her great-uncle.
She received her first artistic training at the drawing and painting school of the Association of Female Artists and Art Lovers in Berlin. In 1915, she took lessons from Lovis Corinth. In 1916, she distributed a pacifist memorandum by Prince Lichnowsky in protest against the war and was imprisoned for 30 days. from 1917 to 1918, she lived in Oslo, where she continued her commitment to peace. In 1920, she returned to Berlin, where she became involved in the German League for Human Rights and its predecessor organisation, the Bund Neues Vaterland, as well as the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom.
After a brief marriage to the Norwegian pianist Birger Hammer, she married the painter Rudolf Jacobi in 1923. She lived with him in Positano from 1923 to 1926. Their daughter Stella Diana was born on 22 May 1925; Annot travelled to Berlin for the birth. In 1929, her son Frank-Arne was born. In 1926, Annot went to Paris to continue her artistic training at André Lhote's painting school. Together with her husband, she opened the Annot painting school in Berlin in 1928. The address book listed her at Lützowplatz 23 in 1930.
Annot was a member of the Berlin Secession. In 1930, she participated in their spring exhibition with a panel painting depicting her and her husband. Among other exhibitions, she was represented at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1932.
She continued to publicly advocate for peace and disarmament and published, among other things, the essay Um die Abrüstung (On Disarmament) in Querschnitt (issue 2/1932, pp. 129–131) in connection with the Geneva Disarmament Conference, in which she states, "Peace is too serious a matter to be left to the military alone."
In 1933, the National Socialists revoked the couple's teaching licence, forcing them to close the school. One reason was their refusal to dismiss Jewish students.
Annot emigrated with her husband to the United States in 1934, where she founded the Annot Art School at Rockefeller Centre in New York.
In the United States, she was represented by the Marie Sterner Gallery and the Van Damien-Lilienfeld Galleries, among others. In 1935, her painting Käthe Kruse and her Children (now owned by the Berlin City Museum) was awarded the gold medal at the 44th Annual Exhibition of Women Painters and Sculptors in New York City. Annot also earned her living by giving lectures on art and working as an interior designer and interior decorator. The couple continued to be involved in the peace movement (Quakers), which was no longer politically acceptable in the USA after the country entered the war in 1942. In 1956, Annot moved with her husband to Puerto Rico to live with their friend Pablo Casals. Here, too, Annot continued her pacifist activism by campaigning against nuclear armament. In 1967, Annot and Rudolf Jacobi returned to Germany and settled in Munich. In 1977, her works were presented to the German public again for the first time at the Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin and in 1978 at the Galerie Von Abercron in Cologne. This piece has an attribution mark,
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