Tania Jacobi

Tania Jacobi, born in Hamburg/ Germany, studied art in Belgium, Spain and New York.
She lived as a freelance artist in Mexico City and was many years part of the Los Angeles downtown artist community.
After 15 years abroad Tania Jacobi returned to her homeland Germany in 2004 and is since living and working in the art-metropolis Berlin.

The main focus of Jacobi's art is the human being.
In large-sized oil paintings as well as in expressionistic drawings
she uncovers the hidden and the enigmatic within us.
She was commissioned to portrait Jean-Claude Trichet, Hans-Dietrich Genscher (former foreign-minister), Wolfgang Schäuble (The German finance- minister), Frank A. Meyer and Sigmar Gabriel among others.

Her work has been shown in many group- and solo- shows in Germany, Mexico, New York and Los Angeles.
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Tania Jacobis Thema ist immer der Mensch, sein eigentliches Wesen. Sie macht es sichtbar in Augenblicken, in Begegnungen mit dem Anderen, eben auch mit dem Tier. In ihren neuen großformatigen Bildern entwirft sie teils skurrile, teils, verstörende Konstellationen, die den Betrachter und seine subjektive Wahrnehmung herausfordern. Tania Jacobi nutzt das Gegenständliche als Maske, um auf das aufmerksam zu mac...

Academia de bellas artes, Seville, Spain, The Art Students League of New York, USA, Koninklijke Academie voor Schonekunsten in Antwerp, Belgium, Real Academia de San Carlos, Mexico D.F., Mexico,