Anna Rivkin-Brick

Anna Rivkin-Brick.

Anna Rivkin-Brick ; Hebrew ריבקין־בריק חנה; (Born June 10, 1908 in Homel , Russian Empire , today Belarus as Anna Riwkin ; † December 18, 1970 in Israel ) was a Swedish photographer . She is particularly known for her illustration of Astrid Lindgren 's children's books , photo books about her long-distance trips and portrait photos of Swedish personalities from art and culture. Her ballet photographs in particular made her famous in Sweden.

Life

Riwkin-Brick's Jewish birth family emigrated to Germany in their early childhood and then to Sweden in 1914. She was married to the Israeli photographer Daniel Brick.

Education and career

After finishing school, she did an internship with court photographer Benkow in Stockholm. In 1928 she opened her first own studio.

In 1955 one of her most famous paintings, a portrait of a protesting woman from Israel, was shown in the exhibition The Family of Man at New York's Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ).

In the 1950s and 1960s, Riwkin-Brick published a series of photo picture books for children that were a huge hit and have been translated into several languages, such as the book Randi bor i Norge with text by Astrid Lindgren. In 2014, director Dvorit Shargal went in search of the children she had photographed and made a 50-minute film ( Where is Elle Kari and what happened to Noriko-san? ) About what had become of these children. In addition, Noiriko and Eva from the books met again in Tokyo. Two more films about the book series Africa! Sia lives on Kilimanjaro and Where is Lilibet the Circus child and what happened in Honolulu? .

1977/78 was posthumously their pictures along with those of Karl Sandels and Curt Gotlin at MoMA devoted an exhibition.

Awards

• 1963: Elsa Beskow badge

Bibliography (selection)

year	Title (german)	Original title	line	author
1950, German 1961	Nomads of the north	Vandrande		Elly Jannes
1951, German 1975	Elle Kari	Elle Kari	Children of our earth	Elly Jannes
1955		Zigenarväg		Ivar Lo-Johansson
1956, German 1956	Noriko-san	Eva Möter Noriko-san	Children of our earth	Astrid Lindgren
1958, German 1958	Sia lives on Kilimanjaro	Sia bor on Kilimandjaro	Children of our earth	Astrid Lindgren
1959, German 1959	Leave from Dalarna	Mina svenska kusiner	Children of our earth	Astrid Lindgren
1960, German 1960	Lilibet, the circus child	Lilibet, circus barn	Children of our earth	Astrid Lindgren
1961, German 1962	Mokihana	Mokihana bor på Hawaii	Children of our earth	Eugénie Söderberg
1962, German 1962	Marko in Yugoslavia	Marko bor i Yugoslavia	Children of our earth	Astrid Lindgren
1963, German 1987	Japi from Holland	Jackie bor in Holland	Children of our earth	Astrid Lindgren
1964, German 1964	Eli from Israel	Eli bor i Israel	Children of our earth	Leah Goldberg
1965, German 1965	Randi from Norway	Randi bor i Norge	Children of our earth	Astrid Lindgren
1966, German 1967	Wanthai from Thailand	Noy bor i Thailand	Children of our earth	Astrid Lindgren
1967, German 1968	Gennet from Ethiopia	Gennet bor i Ethiopia	Children of our earth	Vera Forsberg
1968, German 1969	Matti from Finland	Matti bor i Finland	Children of our earth	Astrid Lindgren
1969, German 1970	Miriam from Israel	Miriam bor i en kibbutz	Children of our earth	Cordelia Edvardson
1970, German 1971	Salima made of cashmere	Salima bor i Kashmir	Children of our earth	Vera Forsberg
1970		För ärniskans skull - en bok om familjeplanering		Vera Forsberg

Web links

• Literature by and about Anna Riwkin-Brick in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer: The view of the foreign. Astrid Lindgrens and Anna Riwkin-Bricks Photo picture books PDF of the University of Tübingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ArkDes visar unika arkitekturbilder .
2. ↑ Barnboksvännerna återförenas efter 60 år .
3. ↑ The Israeli film Director Dvorit SHARGAL is in Cameroon for the Screening of Africa SIA lives on the Kilimanjaro .
4. ↑ Docente Duits circusmeisje boek 'Lilibet' .