Erfgooier (Martin Wortel) by Eduard Jacobs
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Erfgooier (Martin Wortel) 1900 - 1930

Eduard Jacobs

BronzeMetal
42 ⨯ 14 ⨯ 12 cm
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  • About the artwork
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    N.B. Een ander exemplaar bevindt zich in de collectie van het Singer Museum, afkomstig uit de
    nalatenschap van William en Anna Singer
  • About the artist

    Jacobs was a son of insurance agent Dirk Jacobs and Bernardina Cornelia Beerstecher. He attended evening classes at the Quellinus School with Emil Van den Bossche (1881-1882) and then worked in the Van den Bossche en Crevels studio in Amsterdam. In 1883 he moved to Belgium and studied with Charles Van der Stappen at the Brussels Academy. After winning the Prix de Rome in 1888, Jacobs made study trips to Paris, Florence and Rome.

    In 1891 Jacobs opened his own studio on the Ringdijk in the Watergraafsmeer. Due to lack of work, he moved to Essen after a few years, where he started working as a modeler for a plasterer. From 1899 to 1903 he was employed as a executor by Lambertus Zijl, a sculptor friend. During that period he worked on buildings by the architect H.P. Berlage and then more than twenty years to that of architect J.W. Hanrath. In 1903 Jacobs settled in Laren. In 1910 he became a teacher of modeling at the Larensche Kunstschool.

    Jacobs is best known for his sculptures on buildings, including the Beurs van Berlage, the Peace Palace and Rotterdam City Hall, but he also made portraits, funerary monuments and memorial benches, for example. He was a member of Arti et Amicitiae.

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