Louis Jacoby

Louis Jacoby ( born June 7, 1828 in Havel Mountain, † November 11, 1918 in Berlin) was a German engraver.

Life

Jacoby learned the Kupferstecherei at Edward Mandel in Berlin and performed a series of engravings partly in cardboard, partly in line style. The first of these was John the Evangelist ( after Alessandro Tiarini ), whereupon the Battle of the Huns and the legend and the history and Kaulbach's Shakespeare Gallery Lady Macbeth sleepwalking followed for the Duncker edition of the wall paintings Kaulbach in Berlin 's Neues Museum. Later he took a four -year stay in Paris, traveled to Spain and stayed two to three years in Rome.

In 1863 he became professor of engraver Arts in Vienna and initially brought a series of portrait engravings after Winterhalter, Kaulbach and suitable drawings and Alexander and Roxane, by Soddoma, and the boxes of the two curtains of the New Opera House in Vienna, after Rahl and Laufberger. Back in Rome he painted Raphael's Plato Academy, called School of Athens. The 6 meter long fresco was restored in the 19th century by Louis Jacoby in Berlin as a copper engraving.

In 1871 he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown and in 1872 Honorary Member of the Academy in Munich.

From Jacoby's stitches are: the portraits of the Austrian emperor and empress as well as by Karl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Peter Ritter von Cornelius, Ernst Karl Guhl, Theodor Mommsen, Wilhelm Henzen, Franz Grillparzer, General de la Motte- Fouque, and the Count York v. wait castle.

Jacoby is located in the Jewish Cemetery in Havelberg buried.