14 photographs by Ricarda Schwerin. Palestine, [1930s-1970s]. Landscape photographs, architectural photographs and views from Jerusalem and Palestine: children in a lane, a Falafel seller, elderly Bukharan Jews in a synagogue, Armenian monks in the Old City lanes, a group of Arabs in a Debka dance, children playing in the Israel Museum Sculpture Garden, a carved column in a Mawazin arcade on the Temple Mount, Hebrew University buildings on Mount Scopus (see next item), an illuminated leaf from a manuscript (apparently the Rothschild Miscellany), view in the desert, and more. Ricarda Schwerin (1912-1999), born in Germany, studied architecture and photography in the Bauhaus school. She was expelled from the school due to her communist views. Schwerin immigrated to Palestine in 1935 and worked as an independent photographer and partner of Alfred Bernheim over many years. She specialized in portraits and architectural photography. Many of the photographs attributed to Bernheim were in fact taken by her or were a joint work of the two. Nine of the photographs are ink-stamped on the with photographer's stamp; others are attributed to her. A printed information note is pasted to the of one photograph (English). Enclosed: Printed card, "Greetings for the New Year", by Alfred Bernheim and Ricarda Schwerin. The card is blank and was most probably designated for pasting a photograph. Average size: 23.5X18 cm. Good condition. Some creases and blemishes at margins of photographs. Pasting traces on the of a number of photographs. Literature: Faces, Facades and More, the Photographs of Alfred Bernheim Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1992. Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
14 photographs by Ricarda Schwerin. Palestine, [1930s-1970s]. Landscape photographs, architectural photographs and views from Jerusalem and Palestine: children in a lane, a Falafel seller, elderly Bukharan Jews in a synagogue, Armenian monks in the Old City lanes, a group of Arabs in a Debka dance, children playing in the Israel Museum Sculpture Garden, a carved column in a Mawazin arcade on the Temple Mount, Hebrew University buildings on Mount Scopus (see next item), an illuminated leaf from a manuscript (apparently the Rothschild Miscellany), view in the desert, and more. Ricarda Schwerin (1912-1999), born in Germany, studied architecture and photography in the Bauhaus school. She was expelled from the school due to her communist views. Schwerin immigrated to Palestine in 1935 and worked as an independent photographer and partner of Alfred Bernheim over many years. She specialized in portraits and architectural photography. Many of the photographs attributed to Bernheim were in fact taken by her or were a joint work of the two. Nine of the photographs are ink-stamped on the with photographer's stamp; others are attributed to her. A printed information note is pasted to the of one photograph (English). Enclosed: Printed card, "Greetings for the New Year", by Alfred Bernheim and Ricarda Schwerin. The card is blank and was most probably designated for pasting a photograph. Average size: 23.5X18 cm. Good condition. Some creases and blemishes at margins of photographs. Pasting traces on the of a number of photographs. Literature: Faces, Facades and More, the Photographs of Alfred Bernheim Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1992. Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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