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Jean Lucien Nicolas Jacoby (March 26, 1891 – September 9, 1936) was a
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Jean Lucien Nicolas Jacoby (March 26, 1891 – September 9, 1936) was a Luxembourg
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ish artist. He won Olympic gold medals in the Olympic art competitions of 1924 and 1928, making him the most successful Olympic artist ever.
Life
After spending his youth inMolsheim
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. He was then a teacher of drawing from 1912 to 1918 at the Lewin-Funcke school in Berlin, then worked in Wiesbaden
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, before taking over the art department of a printing firm in Strasbourg.
He became internationally known when in 1923 he won the French ''Concours de l'Auto'' with his drawing ''Hurdle runner'', beating 4,000 other entrants. Jacoby often depicted sports in his works, also designing Luxembourg postage stamp
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s for the 1952 Summer Olympics
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After Japan declared in ...
. He himself was featured on a Luxembourg postage stamp in 2016./ref> From 1926 to 1934 he worked as an illustrator and artistic director for two newspapers of the Ullstein-Verlag, the ''Berliner Illustrierte'' and the ''Grüne Post''. He also founded a radio programme guide for all of Germany, called ''Sieben Tage''. In 1934 he moved to
Mulhouse
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, where he died in 1936 of a heart attack. His second wife was Maria née Kasteleiner.
References
Further reading
* Deville, Adolphe, 1967: ''Jean Jacoby''. in''Arts et lettres'' 4, Nr.1, 71 p. * Fuchs, François Joseph: "Jacoby Jean", in ''Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne'', vol. 18, p. 1771 * Kayser, Lucien, 2009. ''face à face: la fonction publique et l'art luxembourgeois''. Confédération générale de la fonction publique. Luxembourg, , pp. 64–65External links
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