The sculptor and photographer Peter Jacobi is one of the most important contemporary artists of Transylvanian origin. He represented Romania at the Venice Biennale as early as 1970. This was followed by numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in 1981 and the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris in 1984. After emigrating to the Federal Republic of Germany, he held a professorship at the University of Design in Pforzheim from 1971 to 1998 and designed the Holocaust Memorial in Bucharest, which was inaugurated in 2009.
For more than 50 years, artistic engagement with the culture of remembrance has been a central theme in the work of the artist, who was born in 1935. Over the decades, he has compiled a unique archive of historical photographs for his work. Peter Jacobi donated large parts of it to the Transylvanian Institute at the University of Heidelberg and the Transylvanian Museum in 2024. In this cabinet exhibition on the occasion of the artist's 90th birthday, both institutions are now presenting a small section of the multifaceted collection to the public for the first time.
For more than 50 years, artistic engagement with the culture of remembrance has been a central theme in the work of the artist, who was born in 1935. Over the decades, he has compiled a unique archive of historical photographs for his work. Peter Jacobi donated large parts of it to the Transylvanian Institute at the University of Heidelberg and the Transylvanian Museum in 2024. In this cabinet exhibition on the occasion of the artist's 90th birthday, both institutions are now presenting a small section of the multifaceted collection to the public for the first time.
