Lili Baruch

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Auguste Lilly Marga Baruch (born January 5, 1895 in Berlin ; died April 23, 1966 in Zurich ) was a German photographer who worked and lived in Berlin in the 1920s.

Life

Portrait of Alfred Flechtheim
Atelier Lili Baruch , 1928
photography
Royal Library, Copenhagen

Link to the picture
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Auguste Lilly Marga Baruch was born as the daughter of the businessman Oskar Baruch and Helene, née Loewÿ, who lives at Oranienburger Strasse 69. Around 1919 she married Peter Salomon Altschul, hence the name Altschul-Baruch.

As the owner of the Lili Baruch studio in Berlin , Kurfürstendamm 201, she photographed the actors and dancers of the Roaring Twenties with a Leica , including the silent film star Ernst Hofmann and Lisa Weise , the sculptor Renée Sintenis and her sculptural works and the art dealers Alfred Flechtheim and Leo Flower kingdom . Valeska Gert and Tatjana Barbakoff danced not only for the theater audience, but also for photographers like Lili Baruch.

Between 1925 and 1931 Baruch worked for various Berlin magazines. In the magazine Uhu photos included are: actress Kitty Aschenbach (1925); Rhythmic gymnastics according to Dr. Bode , Mensendieck and Loheland (1925); Dancer and actress Niddy Impekoven (1926); Actress Sascha Gura (1927); Boxer Max Schmeling (1927); Boxer Enzo Fiermonte , actress Alexa von Porembsky and Jessie Vihrog (1928).

At the end of 1927, Hans Robertson and Lili Baruch jointly owned the Baruch dance studio in Berlin (without first name) at Kurfürstendamm 201. Lili Baruch was in tune with the times and in the neighborhood of other popular (mostly Jewish) photographers who all had settled at the eastern end of Kurfürstendamm: Frieda Riess was at Kudamm 14-15, Steffi Brandl at No. 211, Suse Byk at No. 230, Alexander Binder at No. 225, the most avant-garde among German fashion photographers, Yva around the Corner at Bleibtreustrasse 17 and Lotte and Ruth Jacobi at Joachimsthaler Strasse 5, later Kurfürstendamm 216.

In the magazines Life , Revue of the month and pace - Magazine for progress and culture Baruch received 1,927 orders for Black and White , which in particular to the definable characteristic of the skin color , the new fad of jazz in Germany , the associated new dance forms Black Bottom and Charleston , like the Berlin Negerrevuen , in the mid-1920s.

From 1929 to 1931 Baruch had her photo studio in Bismarckstrasse 103/104, on the 4th floor. In the Berliner Ullstein Funkblatt with the program Sieben Tage (1931 to 1939) in No. 25 the picture Jazz Musician playing tuba was published in 1931 . In March 1932, another picture of the actor and theater director Heinz Hilpert appeared in the Berliner Morgenpost .

Because of her Jewish descent, she was forced to emigrate to Switzerland with her husband and daughter Mirjam (1922–2005) in the early 1930s .

The Kongelige Bibliotek in Copenhagen owns the estate of Hans Robertson. Among them is Lili Baruchs' recording of Alfred Flechtheim in front of a work by Fernand Léger .

Lili Baruch's brother, Heinrich Heinz Baruch, artist name Heinz Barger, later Henry Barger, born on September 9, 1898 in Berlin, was an advertising specialist and from June 1929 the first impresario of the Comedian Harmonists . After separating from the group, he took over the management of Weintraubs Syncopators . During the group's Japan tour in 1938, Baruch emigrated to the United States, where he was naturalized and lived in New York. He died in Moroni (Comoros) in August 1975.

exhibition

  • 2009: Tatjana Barbakoff , A Forgotten Dancer in Pictures and Documents, including photographs by Lili Baruch, Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf

literature

  • People of the time, a hundred and a photograph of essential men and women from the German present and recent past . Karl Robert Langewiesche Verlag, Königstein / Taunus & Leipzig 1930
  • Frieda Riess, Thomas Ehrsam: Die Riess, photographic studio and salon in Berlin 1918–1932
  • Ernst Blass : The essence of the new dance art . Weimar 1921. p. 43
  • Dominic Janes: Back to the Future of the Body . 2007, ISBN 1-84718-162-7 , pp. 97-99, photo illustration traffic
  • Prima la danza! Festschrift for Sibylle Dahms . ISBN 3-8260-2771-X , p. 386 and 391
  • Kate Elswit: Watching Weimar Dance . Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-984481-4 , photo illustration p. 86
  • Hermann Aubel, Marianne Aubel: The Blue Books, The Artistic Dance of Our Time . Langewiesche, 2002, ISBN 3-7845-3450-3
  • Günter Goebbels: Exhibition catalog Tatjana Barbakoff , A forgotten dancer in pictures and documents, 2009. ISBN 3-931697-21-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kerstin Delang: Baruch, Lili, artists record 90065244 , German photo library , accessed on May 14, 2016
  2. ↑ Uhu magazine list view on Lili Baruch
  3. ↑ Figure Black and White, Phot. Baruch , Das Leben, 4th year, no.12, June 1927
  4. ↑ Three black and - (Daisy, Jo and Florence). Revue of the Month , Berlin, No. 28, June 1927
  5. ^ Break-in of the Negroes in Europe phot. Baruch, Berlin. In: Tempo - magazine for progress and culture, issue No. 2, year 1927, pp. 5 and 6
  6. ↑ The negro bit his child ohohohoho, Maud des Forest in a negro revue. phot. Baruch, Berlin. In: Tempo - magazine for progress and culture, issue No. 2, year 1927, p. 3
  7. ↑ Baruch, Lili . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, part 1, p. 120. “Photoatelier, Charlottenbg., Bismarckstr. No. 103. 104 IV ".
  8. ↑ Jazz Musician playing Tuba - 1931- Photographer: Lili Baruch- Published by: 'Sieben Tage' 25/1931 Vintage property of ullstein bild
  9. ↑ Holpert, Heinz - Actor, Director, Intendant, Germany (* March 1, 1890) - + 1932 - Photographer: Lili Baruch - Published by: 'Berliner Morgenpost' Vintage property of ullstein bild
  10. ↑ Heinz Baruch , other members on Comedian Harmonists.net, accessed on February 17, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Baruch, Lili
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baruch, Auguste Lilly Marga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1966
Place of death Zurich