- Sycamore Maple Leaf-Bud
- Acer Pseudoplatanus, Bergahorn, Blattknospe
Sheet: 9 3/16 × 6 13/16 in. (23.4 × 17.3 cm)
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Lotte Jacobi came from a long line of photographers and managed
her family’s photographic studio in Berlin from 1927 until 1935, a period
during which German photographers rejected Expressionism and abstraction and
instead looked squarely at the natural world—an approach they called “New
Objectivity.” This close-up of the bud of a sycamore maple comes from the
archives of Ernst Fuhrmann, a photographer, writer, and editor whose book Die
Pflanze als Lebewesen (The Plant as a Living Creature, 1930) sought to
highlight the animal qualities of plants, a goal well met by Jacobi’s picture
of the insect-like leaf bud taking form, almost like a butterfly emerging from
a cocoon.
ProvenanceEstate of the artist; [Stephan White Gallery, Los Angeles]; Manfred Heiting, Malibu, December 8, 1979; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, upper center: Acer 23 a // CR02|+ [?] [sideways]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, center: Acer pseudoplatanus // Bergahorn. // Blatknospe.
Inscribed in pencil, verso, right center: Sycamore // Maple // plane-tree // leaf-bud.
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower left: C.G.
Stamped in red, verso, lower right center: LOTTE JACOBI // [text cut off]
Printed on applied label, verso, lower right: Please Give Credit To // Jacobi [inscribed in black ink] // From MONKEMEYER // MONKEMEYER PRESS PHOTO SERVICE // 225 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY // LExington 2-5566 // This photograph is for your own use only and is // not to be loaned, sold, syndicated, or used for // advertising without written permission.
Stamped in black, verso, bottom center: FROM THE FUHRMANN ARCHIVES // Ernst Fuhrmann, Editor
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