Lotte Jacobi (1896–1990) was a prominent German-American photographer known for her intimate portraits of major cultural figures in Berlin and New York. Born in Thorn, Germany, she studied at the Academy of Posen and the Bavarian State Academy of Photography. In 1927, she took over the management of her father's studio in Berlin, where she captured notable figures like Kurt Weill, László Moholy-Nagy, and Lotte Lenya. After fleeing Nazi Germany in 1935, she established a studio in New York, building a reputation for her portraiture. In later years, her work shifted toward abstract photography and 'photogenics'—cameraless images created using glass and cellophane. She spent her final decades in New Hampshire, where she co-founded the photography department at the Currier Gallery of Art.[1,2,3]
