Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin

1932

Lotte Jacobi

Associated Names
Lotte Jacobi

Artist, American, born Germany, 1896 - 1990

The image shows a street view at night with a stark contrast between light and shadow. A large, cathedral-like building is covered in mist in the distance. The street gleams with reflections, leading towards the building. Vintage cars are parked, and lights streak across the scene. Tram wires run overhead against the dark sky, and streetlamps provide pools of light. The scene is monochromatic in black, white, and gray tones.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from Marvin Breckinridge Patterson by NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

Bibliography

1978

  • Jacobi, Lotte. Lotte Jacobi. Danbury, New Hampshire, 1978, 125.

1997

  • Beckers, Marion and Elisabeth Moortgat. Atelier Lotte Jacobi: Berlin-New York. Berlin, 1997, 5.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower left in graphite: Lotte Jacobi; on verso, by later hand, on mount, lower left in graphite: PF 10735HG

Wikidata ID

Q64157550

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