Paul Emil Jacobs

Paul Emil Jacobs ( born August 20, 1802 in Gotha, † January 6, 1866 ) was a German painter.

Life

Jacobs, son of the philologist Friedrich Jacobs, received his artistic training at the Munich Academy and first made by a cardboard: outwitting, known Mercury, the Argus. In 1824 he went to Rome, where he excited by a raising of Lazarus stir. In 1836 he painted a series of images of history in the Main Building to Hanover.

His mastery in the rendering of the nude and modeling, he expressed particularly in the depiction of a slave market and in the sleeping and the waking naked boy. Graceful representations of the female body are the Greek in the toilet and the zither -playing Turk. Excellent with light effect is his picture from the Arabian Nights, the Scheherezade at the moment representing where the light first illuminates the room. Also known as a portrait painter Jacobs was outstanding; lithographed by himself the portraits of Goethe, Bretschneider, rust, Doring, his father include

The monumental altarpiece Calvary, 1844, Jacobs created for the Augustinian Church in Gotha, was there in 1939 removed during the reconstruction of the church; it is located since 1998 in the church of Hohenleuben.

Jacobs was married to Louise Jahn, his grandson Emil Jacobs (1868-1940) was a librarian and director of the university library in Freiburg, 1929 First Director of the Preuss. Berlin State Library, and Honorary Professor. of Library Science ibid.