Emmy Roth

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Emmy Roth, photographed by Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski

Emmy Roth (born May 12, 1885 in Hattingen as Emmy Urias ; died July 11, 1942 in Tel Aviv ) was a German silversmith .

life and work

Emmy Urias grew up with siblings Rosalie (* 1878) and Josef (1879–1943) in a middle-class family who had worked their way up from the traveling trade and ran the department store at Steinhagen 15 in Hattingen . On October 31, 1906, she married the Berlin-based businessman Paul Baehr, with whom she moved to Berlin and from whom she was divorced in 1911. After she was widowed shortly thereafter, she was called Roth from a third marriage in 1913. She completed an apprenticeship as a gold and silversmith at the Düsseldorf silversmith company Conrad Anton Beumers and an apprenticeship in other gold and silversmiths workshops and possibly passed a master's examination , which women were only able to do in a few professions at the time. Probably around 1906/07 she opened her own workshop as a silversmith and worked with silver and sterling silver , but also with nickel-alloyed brass and nickel silver . Between 1923 and 1933 she ran her workshop in Charlottenburg , Clausewitzstrasse 8. Roth designed, among other things, for the silver goods factory Peter Bruckmann & Sons in Heilbronn.

The design of their everyday objects, e.g. B. Teapots , initially based on Art Nouveau , since the mid-1920s on the functional style developed in the Bauhaus . In the works from the late 20s and early 30s, she independently combined perfect craftsmanship with modern design. She often used contemporary architectural models in her designs. Your powdered sugar shaker from 1929 made of silver is based, for example, on the Einstein Tower in Potsdam that Erich Mendelsohn created in 1919/20 .

Roth has been exhibiting at trade fairs since 1925, for example at the German Building Exhibition in Berlin in 1931 and at the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 in the Israeli pavilion. She also succeeded, triggered by an article in the New York art magazine "Creative Art" (1929), in receiving orders from abroad. Roth was a member of the Association of German and Austrian Artists' Associations of All Genres (GEDOK) founded by Ida Dehmel in 1926 . After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933 , she emigrated to France. Two years later she decided to leave Europe and went to Palestine , first probably to Jerusalem , and later to Tel Aviv. In 1936 some of the work she had brought with her was exhibited in Tel Aviv. In the absence of orders for larger pieces of silver, she made jewelry and Jewish ritual objects.

When she came to Europe again for a short time in 1937/1938, she worked in Voorschoten for the Dutch silver goods factory Van Kempen en Begeer as an industrial designer . After she returned to Palestine in 1939, she is said to have received the order for the large chandeliers for the Jerusalem Hurva Synagogue . Roth fell ill with cancer and committed suicide , his brother Josef died in 1943 in a Swiss refugee camp.

The city Hattingen remember her in the street Steinhagen with a stumbling block of brass . As part of an exhibition about German silversmiths, the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe and the Berlin Bröhan Museum showed one of their coffee and tea services from the collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin.

literature

Web links

Commons : Emmy Roth  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bröhan / Berg 2001, p. 170. The authors of Frauensilber , on the other hand, assume (p. 78) that she did an apprenticeship there between 1902 and 1906.
  2. ↑ According to the biography in Frauensilber (p. 78), she is said to have continued her training in Berlin. "It also remains unknown whether she ever passed a master's examination."
  3. ↑ Frauensilber , pp. 78, 86; According to Bröhan / Berg (2001, p. 136), she ran this workshop until 1936.
  4. ↑ Bröhan / Berg 2001, illustration 'Icing sugar shaker' p. 136.
  5. ↑ a b Michal S. Friedlander: In the finest form. A silver service by Emmy Roth. Museum portal Berlin. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  6. ↑ Koninklijke Van Kempen & Begeer (see Dutch Wikipedia ).
  7. ↑ Daniel Roeschies: Even more familiar faces. DerWesten.de . November 12, 2011, accessed November 2, 2016.
  8. ↑ Isabella Hafner: Refined and easy to care for. Badisches Landesmuseum shows "women's silver". March 2, 2011, accessed November 2, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Emmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baehr, Emmy; Doctor, Emmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German silversmith
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hattingen
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1942
Place of death Tel Aviv