Alfred Bernheim

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Alfred Bernheim (born July 11, 1885 in Tiengen ; died March 16, 1974 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli photographer.

Life

Alfred Bernheim worked in the administration of the state palaces in Berlin and Potsdam. He married the artist and teacher Ilse Michalowski (1898–1953). Their children were the teacher Charlotte Schiller (1920–2009, died in the USA) and the mathematician Ernst Baruch Bernheim (1923–1948, died in Scotland). From 1920 he studied at the Pforzheim School of Applied Arts , became a designer of table lamps and worked as a sales representative. In 1931/32 he did an apprenticeship as a photographer with Walter Hege and in 1933 opened a studio for architectural photography and his own photography school in Berlin. In 1934 he emigrated to Palestine with his family . In Jerusalem he was a freelance architecture and portrait photographer and worked there with the architect Erich Mendelsohn, among others .

After 1955 he worked with Ricarda Schwerin (1912–1999), and they now ran the photo studio together. They portrayed numerous politicians and well-known personalities in the country, including Golda Meir , Mosche Dajan , David Ben-Gurion , James Baldwin , Martin Buber , Jitzchak Rabin , Heinrich Blücher and Hannah Arendt . In addition, they devoted themselves to architectural photography. In 1969 their joint photo book Jerusalem Rock of Ages was published . After Bernheim's death in 1974, Schwerin continued to run the photo studio for three years.

Photographs (selection)

  • Solo exhibition in the Bezalel Museum 1946
  • Participation in group exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum , Haifa Museum of Art
  • Jakob Rosner (Ed.): A Palestine picture book . New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1947. Photographs by Bernheim on pp. 138 to 141.
  • Faces, facades, and more. The photographs by Alfred Bernheim . Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1992
  • Jerusalem rock of ages. Photographs by Alfred Bernheim and Ricarda Schwerin . Text Fosco Maraini . London: Hamish Hamilton, 1969

literature

  • Bernheim, Alfred , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 97
  • Bernheim, Alfred , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 31
  • Jutta Schwerin: Ricarda's daughter - life between Germany and Israel . Spector Books in cooperation with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Leipzig 2012
  • Klaus Honnef , Frank Weyers (ed.): And they ... had to leave Germany. Photographers and their pictures 1928–1997 . 171 photographers, 603 illustrations. Foreword by Frank Günter Zehnder . Bonn: Rheinisches Landesmuseum, 1997 ISBN 3-932584-02-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schiller, Charlotte , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 306


personal data
SURNAME Bernheim, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldshut-Tiengen
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1974
Place of death Jerusalem