Ellen Auerbach (American/German, 1906–2004)

Timeline

1906: Born: May 20, Karlsruhe, Germany
1929: Relocated to Berlin to study photography with Walter Peterhans
1929–1933: While in her twenties, together with her colleague and friend Grete Stern, the then Ellen Rosenberg formed a commercial photography studio in Berlin named Ringl & Pit. The two women collaboratively produced advertising, still lifes and studio portraits that reflected the energetic, experimental style of their mentor, Walter Peterhans, a professional photographer who taught at the legendary Bauhaus design school.
1933: Mrs. Auerbach and Ms. Stern received first prize at an international exhibition in Brussels for ''Komol,'' an advertising still life constructed like a collage out of layers of paper, wire screen and artificial curls of hair.
1933: The two were forced to close their studio the same year, with Hitler coming to power.
1934–1937: Both of them were Jewish, and Auerbach emigrated to Tel Aviv, London and, in 1937, the United States.
1940–1949: Auerbach xperimented with infrared and ultraviolet fluorescence photography
1960: Completed documentation project of Indian culture in Gran Chaco, Argentina.
2004: Died: July 30, New York City

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