Otto Reinhold Jacobi 1812-1901
He was born in Königsberg, Germany in 1812. Died in Ardoch, Dakota in 1901. Otto Jacobi RCA received his first art lessons in his native city of Königsberg (after the World War II, Kaliningrad, Russia). In 1830, he studied in Berlin (Königliche Akademie der Künste). He then moved on to the Fine Arts Academy in Düsseldorf, where he studied under the painter Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807-1863). Between 1840 and 1860, he worked in the court of a German prince in Wiesbaden (now Hesse). Jacobi emigrated to America around 1860. He settled in Montréal, where he forged ties with the local artistic milieu and with artists from abroad such as his fellow countrymen Adolph Vogt (1812-1871). Otto Reinhold Jacobi was a landscape painter who worked around Montréal, Québec, Ottawa and Kingston, and who mainly painted waterfalls and landscapes. He briefly taught at the Ontario College of Art. Otto Jacobi showed his works in the annual exhibitions of the Art Association of Montreal and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1880-1898), of which he would become president in 1890. He returned to live with his brother in Ardoch, Dakota, where he died in 1901.
Works of his can be found in every major museum in Canada and abroad.