Ellen Auerbach. Photographic works
The bequest of artistic photography by Ellen Auerbach (1906-2004) comprises about 400 mounted prints authorised by the photographer in her lifetime and about 3,000 negatives with about the same number of prints. The photographs, taken between the late1920s and the 1980s, include portraits and commercial works by the photography studio ringl + pit, which Auerbach ran with Grete Stern until 1933 in Berlin, photographs taken during her exile in Palestine, England and the United States and on her many journeys to places such as South America and Europe.