Ellen Auberbach
16 May - 11 Jun 2006
Tribute to Pit. Ellen Auberbach on her 100th anniversary
To celebrate the anniversary of the 100th birthday of the German-American photographer Ellen Auerbach (1906-2004) the Pinakothek der Moderne is showing the documentary film »ringl and pit« by the American director Juan Mandelbaum. In 1929, together with Grete Stern (1904-1999), Ellen Auerbach founded the Berlin photo studio ringl+pit. It soon rose to fame and won acclaim as the atelier for avantgarde advertisements and portraits. At the height of their success both women were forced to leave Germany in 1933. Ellen Auerbach emigrated via Palestine to New York, where she lived to her death in 2004. This one-hour-long film was made in 1995 with the collaboration of the two women photographers and traces in great detail their unusual lives. It is a unique document about two exceptional women, their 70-year friendship and the cultural and political events that so significantly shaped the 20th century. Parallel to the showing of the film the museum will be displaying 15 photographs of Ellen Auerbach taken between 1929 and 1955.
To celebrate the anniversary of the 100th birthday of the German-American photographer Ellen Auerbach (1906-2004) the Pinakothek der Moderne is showing the documentary film »ringl and pit« by the American director Juan Mandelbaum. In 1929, together with Grete Stern (1904-1999), Ellen Auerbach founded the Berlin photo studio ringl+pit. It soon rose to fame and won acclaim as the atelier for avantgarde advertisements and portraits. At the height of their success both women were forced to leave Germany in 1933. Ellen Auerbach emigrated via Palestine to New York, where she lived to her death in 2004. This one-hour-long film was made in 1995 with the collaboration of the two women photographers and traces in great detail their unusual lives. It is a unique document about two exceptional women, their 70-year friendship and the cultural and political events that so significantly shaped the 20th century. Parallel to the showing of the film the museum will be displaying 15 photographs of Ellen Auerbach taken between 1929 and 1955.