Editing Jean Jacoby (section)

== Life ==
After spending his youth in [[Molsheim]] in Alsace, Jean Jacoby studied art at the ''École des Beaux-Arts'' in [[Strasbourg]]. He was then a teacher of drawing from 1912 to 1918 at the Lewin-Funcke school in Berlin, then worked in [[Wiesbaden]], 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]]s for the [[1952 Summer Olympics]].<ref>[http://www.luxcentral.com/stamps/LuxStamps1950-1955.html#Sports Luxembourg Stamps 1950–55]</ref> He himself was featured on a Luxembourg postage stamp in 2016.<ref>[https://www.postphilately.lu/fr-FR/Products/Collectionneurs/Timbres-de-collection/Jean-Jacoby Post Philately - Jean Jacoby]</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]], where he died in 1936 of a heart attack. His second wife was Maria née Kasteleiner.