Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
Sold for: $1,375
Including buyer's premium
Photograph album that belonged to a ghaffir in the Jewish settlement police who joined the British Army at the outbreak of World War II. The album contains approx. 270 photographs documenting the period of the Arab Revolt (1936-1939 Riots) and the years of service of the album's owner in the Jewish settlement police and the British Army. Palestine, 1930s (most of the photographs are dated 1939).
Most of the photographs are captioned by hand (in Hebrew and English) on the album's leaves. Mounted alongside the photographs on some of the album's leaves are paper cutouts – headlines, insignias of British Army units (written and colored by hand), and more.
Photographs include: • Photos depicting the construction of Farradiyya (Shefer) police fort in the Upper Galilee. • Photos depicting the daily life of Notrim in the Jewish settlement police. • Six photos from the period of the Great Arab Revolt: a train that passed over a landmine, burning fields, British soldiers at a train station and more. • Photos of soldiers in various units of the British Army, including the Jewish Attached Police (a Notrim unit annexed to the British Army), the Royal East Kent Regiment, the Royal Army Service Corps (for transport and supply), and more.
Some of the photographs were taken during training; most were taken in Haifa (including at the airport used by the Royal British Air Force), Acre, Nablus and Jenin. • Photograph of soldiers on the beach, captioned: "The illegal immigrant ship 'Asimi' on the horizon". • Photographs of Haifa (the port, the Bat Galim neighborhood and the casino, the French Carmel, and more), Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities. • And more.
Enclosed: • "Badges of Rank", a printed leaf with a table showing the badges of various ranks in the British Army, Navy and Air Force. • About 20 photos that belonged to the album's owner, from later years.
Approx. 270 photos, arranged in the album using mounting corners. Photo size varies, album size: 30X24 cm. Good overall condition. Tears and minor blemishes to some of the photographs. A number of mounting corners are missing (and some are not original). A number of photographs are loose. Stains and tears to tissue guards (some tears are reinforced with adhesive tape). Stains and blemishes to album's binding. Strips of adhesive tape on binding's margins.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Most of the photographs are captioned by hand (in Hebrew and English) on the album's leaves. Mounted alongside the photographs on some of the album's leaves are paper cutouts – headlines, insignias of British Army units (written and colored by hand), and more.
Photographs include: • Photos depicting the construction of Farradiyya (Shefer) police fort in the Upper Galilee. • Photos depicting the daily life of Notrim in the Jewish settlement police. • Six photos from the period of the Great Arab Revolt: a train that passed over a landmine, burning fields, British soldiers at a train station and more. • Photos of soldiers in various units of the British Army, including the Jewish Attached Police (a Notrim unit annexed to the British Army), the Royal East Kent Regiment, the Royal Army Service Corps (for transport and supply), and more.
Some of the photographs were taken during training; most were taken in Haifa (including at the airport used by the Royal British Air Force), Acre, Nablus and Jenin. • Photograph of soldiers on the beach, captioned: "The illegal immigrant ship 'Asimi' on the horizon". • Photographs of Haifa (the port, the Bat Galim neighborhood and the casino, the French Carmel, and more), Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities. • And more.
Enclosed: • "Badges of Rank", a printed leaf with a table showing the badges of various ranks in the British Army, Navy and Air Force. • About 20 photos that belonged to the album's owner, from later years.
Approx. 270 photos, arranged in the album using mounting corners. Photo size varies, album size: 30X24 cm. Good overall condition. Tears and minor blemishes to some of the photographs. A number of mounting corners are missing (and some are not original). A number of photographs are loose. Stains and tears to tissue guards (some tears are reinforced with adhesive tape). Stains and blemishes to album's binding. Strips of adhesive tape on binding's margins.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $2,750
Including buyer's premium
Approximately 280 black and white photographs documenting the participation of male and female Jewish soldiers in units of the British Army during World War II. Tel Aviv, Haifa, Taranto, Treviso, Vienna, Tripoli, Cairo and elsewhere in Europe and the Middle East, ca. 1942-1946.
• Approximately 80 photographs of soldiers of the Jewish Brigade, including: brigade soldiers arriving at Taranto port in Italy; soldiers riding in an armored vehicle on their way to the Italian front; traversing a snow-covered mountain in Italy; visit of brigade soldiers to Herzl's grave in Vienna; photographs of brigade commander Levi Benjamin; visit of Moshe Sharet to the unit; assembling a machine gun; tent camps; and more.
• Approximately 200 photographs of Jewish soldiers serving in different units of the British Army, including: fourteen photographs of Jewish women serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in Tel Aviv and Haifa; two photographs of Jewish soldiers from the Buffs unit; two group photographs of soldiers from the air defense unit in Tel Aviv; as well as photographs of soldiers performing boating exercises on the Yarkon River, removing landmines, extricating vehicles, festive meals, photographic portraits and more.
Some of the photographs are captioned, dated and dedicated by hand on verso (Hebrew and English), and some are marked with ink stamps of various photographers: The Orient Press Photo Company [Zoltan Kluger], Ephraim Erde, Photo Orient, Photo: S. Fuks (Shimon Fuks), and other stamps.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
• Approximately 80 photographs of soldiers of the Jewish Brigade, including: brigade soldiers arriving at Taranto port in Italy; soldiers riding in an armored vehicle on their way to the Italian front; traversing a snow-covered mountain in Italy; visit of brigade soldiers to Herzl's grave in Vienna; photographs of brigade commander Levi Benjamin; visit of Moshe Sharet to the unit; assembling a machine gun; tent camps; and more.
• Approximately 200 photographs of Jewish soldiers serving in different units of the British Army, including: fourteen photographs of Jewish women serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in Tel Aviv and Haifa; two photographs of Jewish soldiers from the Buffs unit; two group photographs of soldiers from the air defense unit in Tel Aviv; as well as photographs of soldiers performing boating exercises on the Yarkon River, removing landmines, extricating vehicles, festive meals, photographic portraits and more.
Some of the photographs are captioned, dated and dedicated by hand on verso (Hebrew and English), and some are marked with ink stamps of various photographers: The Orient Press Photo Company [Zoltan Kluger], Ephraim Erde, Photo Orient, Photo: S. Fuks (Shimon Fuks), and other stamps.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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Maps, Travelogues, Photography
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Album in an olive-wood binding, with 144 photographs, that belonged to a soldier of the British Royal Air Force who served in the Aqir base (RAF Aqir, the Royal Air Force’s main military airport in Palestine). 1944-1945.
The album includes: • Photographs of Tel-Aviv: the Yarkon River, the beach, Dizengoff Square, Cinema Mugrabi, Rothschild Boulevard and more. • Numerous photographs of Jerusalem: the Western Wall and other sites in the Old City, the British Army cemetery on Mount Scopus, view from the YMCA tower, Rockefeller Museum, and more. • Photographs of the Aquir base (swimming pool, the church, and more) and group photographs of soldiers. • Photographs from different places in Palestine and Egypt: Tiberias, Capernahum, Nazareth, Nablus, Acre, Haifa, Bethlehem, Jericho, Ismailia, and more. The album also contains three souvenir cards with pressed flowers.
Some of the photographs are original while others are souvenir photographs purchased by the soldier (stamped on the back: "The Matson Photo Service"). The photographs are titled by hand on the album's leaves (English). A handwritten note appears at the beginning of the album – the soldier’s name, location, and the dates of his service.
The album is bound in an olive wood binding with a cloth spine. A color illustration of the Dome of the Rock is printed on the front binding.
Total of 144 photographs, arranged in an album with mounting corners. Size varies. Average size: 6.5X9 cm. Good condition. Some stains and creases to photographs. Some of the mounting corners are torn. Creases and a small number of tears to margins of leaves. Minor blemishes to olive wood binding and to cloth spine.
The album includes: • Photographs of Tel-Aviv: the Yarkon River, the beach, Dizengoff Square, Cinema Mugrabi, Rothschild Boulevard and more. • Numerous photographs of Jerusalem: the Western Wall and other sites in the Old City, the British Army cemetery on Mount Scopus, view from the YMCA tower, Rockefeller Museum, and more. • Photographs of the Aquir base (swimming pool, the church, and more) and group photographs of soldiers. • Photographs from different places in Palestine and Egypt: Tiberias, Capernahum, Nazareth, Nablus, Acre, Haifa, Bethlehem, Jericho, Ismailia, and more. The album also contains three souvenir cards with pressed flowers.
Some of the photographs are original while others are souvenir photographs purchased by the soldier (stamped on the back: "The Matson Photo Service"). The photographs are titled by hand on the album's leaves (English). A handwritten note appears at the beginning of the album – the soldier’s name, location, and the dates of his service.
The album is bound in an olive wood binding with a cloth spine. A color illustration of the Dome of the Rock is printed on the front binding.
Total of 144 photographs, arranged in an album with mounting corners. Size varies. Average size: 6.5X9 cm. Good condition. Some stains and creases to photographs. Some of the mounting corners are torn. Creases and a small number of tears to margins of leaves. Minor blemishes to olive wood binding and to cloth spine.
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $2,500
Including buyer's premium
Approximately 120 photographs by Zoltan Kluger. Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and other locations in Palestine, ca. 1930s through early 1950s.
The collection includes a variety of photographs documenting the Zionist enterprise during the period of the "state in the making". Among the photographs: Moshe Sharett and the High Commissioner Arthur Wauchope attending the funeral of Meir Dizengoff (1936), Mayor of Tel-Aviv Israel Rokach walking by a "Mishmar Ivri" [Tel-Aviv police?] force standing in formation, a photograph from the funeral of Shemaryahu Levin opposite Tel-Aviv Town Hall, soldiers of The Special Night Squads commanded by Orde Wingate, establishing "Tower and Stockade" settlements, sports competitions, fishermen, farmers, Notrim on horseback, factories and plants, numerous portrait photographs of pioneers and guarding forces. Aerial photographs of Palestine, and more.
Most photographs are ink-stamped on verso with the stamp: "The Orient Press Photo Company (Photo Z. Kluger)" and other ink-stamps, and some are titled and numbered by hand (Hebrew).
Zoltan Kluger (1896-1977) was one of the most important photographers in Palestine in the 1930s-40s. At a young age he served as an aerial photographer in the Austro-Hungarian air force, and after World War I immigrated to Berlin where he started working as a press photographer. He immigrated to Palestine in 1933 and opened the "Orient Press Photo Company" together with Nachman Shifrin (Ben-Haim). Kluger was the "House photographer" of the national institutes (mostly Keren HaYesod), and left tens of thousands of negatives documenting extensively the "state in the making". Most remembered is the series of aerial photographs, commissioned by Zalman Schoken on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. In the late 1950s Kluger left Israel for the United States. Not much is known about his last years. He passed away in the United States in 1977.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. A piece is cut out from the top of one photograph.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
The collection includes a variety of photographs documenting the Zionist enterprise during the period of the "state in the making". Among the photographs: Moshe Sharett and the High Commissioner Arthur Wauchope attending the funeral of Meir Dizengoff (1936), Mayor of Tel-Aviv Israel Rokach walking by a "Mishmar Ivri" [Tel-Aviv police?] force standing in formation, a photograph from the funeral of Shemaryahu Levin opposite Tel-Aviv Town Hall, soldiers of The Special Night Squads commanded by Orde Wingate, establishing "Tower and Stockade" settlements, sports competitions, fishermen, farmers, Notrim on horseback, factories and plants, numerous portrait photographs of pioneers and guarding forces. Aerial photographs of Palestine, and more.
Most photographs are ink-stamped on verso with the stamp: "The Orient Press Photo Company (Photo Z. Kluger)" and other ink-stamps, and some are titled and numbered by hand (Hebrew).
Zoltan Kluger (1896-1977) was one of the most important photographers in Palestine in the 1930s-40s. At a young age he served as an aerial photographer in the Austro-Hungarian air force, and after World War I immigrated to Berlin where he started working as a press photographer. He immigrated to Palestine in 1933 and opened the "Orient Press Photo Company" together with Nachman Shifrin (Ben-Haim). Kluger was the "House photographer" of the national institutes (mostly Keren HaYesod), and left tens of thousands of negatives documenting extensively the "state in the making". Most remembered is the series of aerial photographs, commissioned by Zalman Schoken on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. In the late 1950s Kluger left Israel for the United States. Not much is known about his last years. He passed away in the United States in 1977.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. A piece is cut out from the top of one photograph.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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Maps, Travelogues, Photography
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $800
Unsold
Twenty-nine black and white photographs by the photographer Zoltan Kluger. Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Rehovot, Kfar Monash, Kfar Kish and elsewhere in Palestine, ca. 1940s-50s.
Among the photogrpahs: photograph of Chaim Weizmann, his wife and the Rishon LeZion Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, in the ceremony of laying a corner stone for the Weizmann Institute, in 1944; plowing the first furrow in Kfar Kish, 1946; pioneers settling in Kfar Monash in 1946; "Yom HaYam" parade in Tel-Aviv, 1947; as well as photographs of vessels and sailors, many photographs of workers and craftsmen (workers in a shoe factory, workers in a candle factory, electronics products and more), fashion photographs and some other photographs.
Twenty-eight of the photographs are stamped with photographer's ink-stamp and some of them are stamped with other ink-stamps. Most photographs are titled by hand on the back (English and some Hebrew) and a number are dated.
Size and condition vary.
Among the photogrpahs: photograph of Chaim Weizmann, his wife and the Rishon LeZion Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, in the ceremony of laying a corner stone for the Weizmann Institute, in 1944; plowing the first furrow in Kfar Kish, 1946; pioneers settling in Kfar Monash in 1946; "Yom HaYam" parade in Tel-Aviv, 1947; as well as photographs of vessels and sailors, many photographs of workers and craftsmen (workers in a shoe factory, workers in a candle factory, electronics products and more), fashion photographs and some other photographs.
Twenty-eight of the photographs are stamped with photographer's ink-stamp and some of them are stamped with other ink-stamps. Most photographs are titled by hand on the back (English and some Hebrew) and a number are dated.
Size and condition vary.
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![Ten prints of photographs by Alexander Ganan. Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron. [1930s-40s]. Prints on thick paper, mounted on](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/114.jpg "Ten Prints of Photographs – Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron – Alexande")
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $300
Unsold
Ten prints of photographs by Alexander Ganan. Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron. [1930s-40s].
Prints on thick paper, mounted on paper sheets. Among them: • The Old City of Jerusalem: Nablus Gate, a lane on the way to the Western Wall, Via Dolorosa, and more. • Bethlehem and Hebron. • Portrait of an Arab boy. Nine prints are signed in pencil, "Ganan". Some are titled by hand.
Alexander Ganan, an Israeli photographer born in Hungary, opened a photography studio in Jerusalem in the early 1930s and specialized in portrait photography and outdoor photography in a romantic-pictorial style. Died ca. mid 1970s.
Ten prints, 12X17 cm. Mounted on paper sheets: 22X29.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains and blemishes.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Prints on thick paper, mounted on paper sheets. Among them: • The Old City of Jerusalem: Nablus Gate, a lane on the way to the Western Wall, Via Dolorosa, and more. • Bethlehem and Hebron. • Portrait of an Arab boy. Nine prints are signed in pencil, "Ganan". Some are titled by hand.
Alexander Ganan, an Israeli photographer born in Hungary, opened a photography studio in Jerusalem in the early 1930s and specialized in portrait photography and outdoor photography in a romantic-pictorial style. Died ca. mid 1970s.
Ten prints, 12X17 cm. Mounted on paper sheets: 22X29.5 cm. Good condition. Some stains and blemishes.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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Maps, Travelogues, Photography
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![Ten photographs by the photographer Lou Landauer. Palestine [ca. 1940s]. Photographs of various settlements in Palestine and](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/115_1.jpg "Collection of Photographs by Lou Landauer – Views of Palestine – 1940s")
![Ten photographs by the photographer Lou Landauer. Palestine [ca. 1940s]. Photographs of various settlements in Palestine and](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/115_2.jpg "Collection of Photographs by Lou Landauer – Views of Palestine – 1940s")
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Ten photographs by the photographer Lou Landauer. Palestine [ca. 1940s].
Photographs of various settlements in Palestine and their inhabitants. Among them: photographs of Jerusalem, Nazareth, Nablus, Jenin, El-Hama Bridge, camels crossing a spring, an Arab boy, and more.
All the photographs are mounted on thick paper, and signed in pencil on the paper. All paper sheets are stamped on verso: "Photo: Lou Landauer Jerusalem".
Lou Landauer, born in Germany, immigrated to Palestine in 1933. She photographed many architectural structures, mainly in Kibutzim, for Keren HaYessod and for the settlement department of the organization of German immigrants in Palestine, headed by her husband Dr. Georg Landauer. At the same time, she worked independently and photographed portraits and photograms. In 1941 Landauer started to teach photography in "New Bezalel" (she attempted to establish a photography department in Bezalel, separate from the commercial graphics department, but this attempt failed and she taught in the commercial graphics department). Landauer left Israel in 1955; passed away in Switzerland in 1996. Many of her negatives were lost (apparently, Landauer discarded the archive of glass negatives towards her departure from Israel).
Photographs: approx. 13X20 cm. to 17.5X23.5 cm. Mounted on paper, approx. 35X25 cm. The photographs are in good condition, some stains. Some are partially detached from the paper. The paper sheets are stained, with slight creases and tears at margins.
Literature: "Women Photographers in the Private arena, Women Photographers in the Public arena", by Rona Sela. In: "Women Artists in Israel 1920-1970", edited by Ruth Markus. Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 2008, pp. 117-118. Hebrew.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Photographs of various settlements in Palestine and their inhabitants. Among them: photographs of Jerusalem, Nazareth, Nablus, Jenin, El-Hama Bridge, camels crossing a spring, an Arab boy, and more.
All the photographs are mounted on thick paper, and signed in pencil on the paper. All paper sheets are stamped on verso: "Photo: Lou Landauer Jerusalem".
Lou Landauer, born in Germany, immigrated to Palestine in 1933. She photographed many architectural structures, mainly in Kibutzim, for Keren HaYessod and for the settlement department of the organization of German immigrants in Palestine, headed by her husband Dr. Georg Landauer. At the same time, she worked independently and photographed portraits and photograms. In 1941 Landauer started to teach photography in "New Bezalel" (she attempted to establish a photography department in Bezalel, separate from the commercial graphics department, but this attempt failed and she taught in the commercial graphics department). Landauer left Israel in 1955; passed away in Switzerland in 1996. Many of her negatives were lost (apparently, Landauer discarded the archive of glass negatives towards her departure from Israel).
Photographs: approx. 13X20 cm. to 17.5X23.5 cm. Mounted on paper, approx. 35X25 cm. The photographs are in good condition, some stains. Some are partially detached from the paper. The paper sheets are stained, with slight creases and tears at margins.
Literature: "Women Photographers in the Private arena, Women Photographers in the Public arena", by Rona Sela. In: "Women Artists in Israel 1920-1970", edited by Ruth Markus. Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 2008, pp. 117-118. Hebrew.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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![Ten photographs by Walter Christeller depicting sites and views in Palestine. [ca. 1940s]. Among the photographs: • Photograp](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/116_1.jpg "Walter Christeller – Collection of Photographs – 1940s")
![Ten photographs by Walter Christeller depicting sites and views in Palestine. [ca. 1940s]. Among the photographs: • Photograp](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/116_2.jpg "Walter Christeller – Collection of Photographs – 1940s")
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Unsold
Ten photographs by Walter Christeller depicting sites and views in Palestine. [ca. 1940s].
Among the photographs: • Photographs of the ancient synagogue in Baram – general view and details. • Photograph of the Tower of David. • Portrait photograph of a young girl. • And more. The photographs are mounted on cardboard and signed on the cardboard.
Walter Christeller (1893-1961), stills and film photographer, immigrated to Palestine from Germany in 1933. Late in the same year he founded a photography studio in his home, in Tel-Aviv. Christeller specialized in filming advertising and publicity films (among other things, he photographed and directed publicity films for JNF, with the director Erich Bruck).
10 photographs, approx. 18X23.5 cm, on 35X25 cm cardboard boards. Good condition. Some stains, mostly on boards. Peelings and some damage to a number of photographs.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Among the photographs: • Photographs of the ancient synagogue in Baram – general view and details. • Photograph of the Tower of David. • Portrait photograph of a young girl. • And more. The photographs are mounted on cardboard and signed on the cardboard.
Walter Christeller (1893-1961), stills and film photographer, immigrated to Palestine from Germany in 1933. Late in the same year he founded a photography studio in his home, in Tel-Aviv. Christeller specialized in filming advertising and publicity films (among other things, he photographed and directed publicity films for JNF, with the director Erich Bruck).
10 photographs, approx. 18X23.5 cm, on 35X25 cm cardboard boards. Good condition. Some stains, mostly on boards. Peelings and some damage to a number of photographs.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Collection of photographs and negatives from the estate of Helene Bieberkraut (1896-1983). Germany and Palestine, [ca. 1920s-1940s].
Helene Bieberkraut, née Joseph, was born in Cologne, Germany, and studied photography in Munich, where she opened a studio for portraits and architecture photography. In the late 1920s she married the artist James Bieberkraut (born in Leipzig, Germany). In ca. 1936 the couple immigrated to Palestine. Helene opened a photography studio in Tel-Aviv where she continued, among other things, to photograph portraits. Later on, when she moved with her husband to Jerusalem, she started photographing archaeological excavations, archaeological findings and ancient manuscripts. Among others, she photographed the Dead Sea Scrolls (her husband, James, was the one who opened the Genesis Apocryphon).
The collection includes:
• Photographs by Bieberkraut, from Germany and Palestine (signed with ink-stamps or by hand), including portrait photographs taken in Munich, a group photograph at the entrance to the Montefiori high school in Tel Aviv, interior of a synagogue in Ramat-Gan, and more.
• Album with seventeen photographs by Bieberkraut depicting architectural models created by her husband, James, including models of a synagogue in Hadera and of "Habima" theater. Some photographs are titled by hand on the album's leaves.
• Album with nine photographs by Bieberkraut portraying various buildings in Tel-Aviv and Ramat-Gan, interior and exterior, (among them: Feuchtwanger Bank, construction site on Hayarkon Street, synagogue in Ramat-Gan, and more).
• About 300 negatives (some arranged in designated albums. Some printed on transparencies), including negatives of photographs from various locations in Palestine: Jerusalem and the vicinity (Dome of the Rock, Old City streets, Rachel's Tomb, and more), Tiberias, Safed, Nablus, and other locations. Most were probably taken in the 1920s or early 1930s.
• Two booklets (thick paper sheets, folded) with postcards on which are printed photographs of landscapes, flowers and animals, by Bieberkraut. Printed in Germany.
• Additional photographs from the estate of Bieberkraut.
Total of about 350 items (photo albums, loose photographs, negatives, and more). Size and condition vary.
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Helene Bieberkraut, née Joseph, was born in Cologne, Germany, and studied photography in Munich, where she opened a studio for portraits and architecture photography. In the late 1920s she married the artist James Bieberkraut (born in Leipzig, Germany). In ca. 1936 the couple immigrated to Palestine. Helene opened a photography studio in Tel-Aviv where she continued, among other things, to photograph portraits. Later on, when she moved with her husband to Jerusalem, she started photographing archaeological excavations, archaeological findings and ancient manuscripts. Among others, she photographed the Dead Sea Scrolls (her husband, James, was the one who opened the Genesis Apocryphon).
The collection includes:
• Photographs by Bieberkraut, from Germany and Palestine (signed with ink-stamps or by hand), including portrait photographs taken in Munich, a group photograph at the entrance to the Montefiori high school in Tel Aviv, interior of a synagogue in Ramat-Gan, and more.
• Album with seventeen photographs by Bieberkraut depicting architectural models created by her husband, James, including models of a synagogue in Hadera and of "Habima" theater. Some photographs are titled by hand on the album's leaves.
• Album with nine photographs by Bieberkraut portraying various buildings in Tel-Aviv and Ramat-Gan, interior and exterior, (among them: Feuchtwanger Bank, construction site on Hayarkon Street, synagogue in Ramat-Gan, and more).
• About 300 negatives (some arranged in designated albums. Some printed on transparencies), including negatives of photographs from various locations in Palestine: Jerusalem and the vicinity (Dome of the Rock, Old City streets, Rachel's Tomb, and more), Tiberias, Safed, Nablus, and other locations. Most were probably taken in the 1920s or early 1930s.
• Two booklets (thick paper sheets, folded) with postcards on which are printed photographs of landscapes, flowers and animals, by Bieberkraut. Printed in Germany.
• Additional photographs from the estate of Bieberkraut.
Total of about 350 items (photo albums, loose photographs, negatives, and more). Size and condition vary.
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Eight photographs by German photographer Helene Bieberkraut – photographs from the convention of Jewish youth movements in Germany, with the participation of Martin Buber, and portrait photographs. Munich and Tel-Aviv, ca. 1930s-40s.
• Achte Ordentliche Delegiertentagung des Verbandes der Jüedischen Jugendvereine Deutschlands, am 8. und 9. Juni 1930 Im Muenchen [Eighth convention of the association of Jewish youth movements in Germany, 8-9 June, 1930, in Munich], album with four photographs (pasted at top margins to album's leaves): representatives of youth movements convene in a hall (Martin Buber seen on the stage), two photographs of youth dressed as biblical figures and a portrait photograph of Martin Buber.
• Four photographs (pasted at top margins to thick paper leaves): portrait photographs of opera singer Elsa Jülich and her husband, pianist and conductor Michael Taube; additional copy of two photographs from the above album – photograph of the convention hall and Martin Buber's portrait.
Three of the photographs are hand-signed by the photographer, in Hebrew and German, on the paper leaves. All of the photographs are ink-stamped on the back or on the back of the paper leaves with photographer's stamp, and three bear embossed stamps on the bottom.
Photographs: approx. 15.5X20 – 15.5X23 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes, mostly to margins. Stains and blemishes to paper leaves and to album (most of them slight), tears along album's spine.
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• Achte Ordentliche Delegiertentagung des Verbandes der Jüedischen Jugendvereine Deutschlands, am 8. und 9. Juni 1930 Im Muenchen [Eighth convention of the association of Jewish youth movements in Germany, 8-9 June, 1930, in Munich], album with four photographs (pasted at top margins to album's leaves): representatives of youth movements convene in a hall (Martin Buber seen on the stage), two photographs of youth dressed as biblical figures and a portrait photograph of Martin Buber.
• Four photographs (pasted at top margins to thick paper leaves): portrait photographs of opera singer Elsa Jülich and her husband, pianist and conductor Michael Taube; additional copy of two photographs from the above album – photograph of the convention hall and Martin Buber's portrait.
Three of the photographs are hand-signed by the photographer, in Hebrew and German, on the paper leaves. All of the photographs are ink-stamped on the back or on the back of the paper leaves with photographer's stamp, and three bear embossed stamps on the bottom.
Photographs: approx. 15.5X20 – 15.5X23 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes, mostly to margins. Stains and blemishes to paper leaves and to album (most of them slight), tears along album's spine.
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Portrait of a man, photograph by Helmar Lersky. Signed.
Helmar Lersky (1871-1956), born in Strasbourg, was active in Switzerland, the United States, Germany and in Palestine. He was one of the prominent photographers in the 1930s-40s in Palestine and gained an international reputation as a stills photographer and a cinematographer. He was known for his close-up portrait photographs, unique for their light and shade contrast.
19X27 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to margins. Traces of pasting on the back.
Helmar Lersky (1871-1956), born in Strasbourg, was active in Switzerland, the United States, Germany and in Palestine. He was one of the prominent photographers in the 1930s-40s in Palestine and gained an international reputation as a stills photographer and a cinematographer. He was known for his close-up portrait photographs, unique for their light and shade contrast.
19X27 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to margins. Traces of pasting on the back.
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![14 photographs by Ricarda Schwerin. Palestine, [1930s-1970s]. Landscape photographs, architectural photographs and views from](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/120_1.jpg "Collection of Photographs by Ricarda Schwerin – Palestine, 1930s-70s")
![14 photographs by Ricarda Schwerin. Palestine, [1930s-1970s]. Landscape photographs, architectural photographs and views from](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/120_2.jpg "Collection of Photographs by Ricarda Schwerin – Palestine, 1930s-70s")
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium
14 photographs by Ricarda Schwerin. Palestine, [1930s-1970s].
Landscape photographs, architectural photographs and views from Jerusalem and Palestine: children in a lane, a Falafel seller, elderly Bukharan Jews in a synagogue, Armenian monks in the Old City lanes, a group of Arabs in a Debka dance, children playing in the Israel Museum Sculpture Garden, a carved column in a Mawazin arcade on the Temple Mount, Hebrew University buildings on Mount Scopus (see next item), an illuminated leaf from a manuscript (apparently the Rothschild Miscellany), view in the desert, and more.
Ricarda Schwerin (1912-1999), born in Germany, studied architecture and photography in the Bauhaus school. She was expelled from the school due to her communist views. Schwerin immigrated to Palestine in 1935 and worked as an independent photographer and partner of Alfred Bernheim over many years. She specialized in portraits and architectural photography. Many of the photographs attributed to Bernheim were in fact taken by her or were a joint work of the two.
Nine of the photographs are ink-stamped on the back with photographer's stamp; others are attributed to her. A printed information note is pasted to the back of one photograph (English).
Enclosed: Printed card, "Greetings for the New Year", by Alfred Bernheim and Ricarda Schwerin. The card is blank and was most probably designated for pasting a photograph.
Average size: 23.5X18 cm. Good condition. Some creases and blemishes at margins of photographs. Pasting traces on the back of a number of photographs.
Literature: Faces, Facades and More, the Photographs of Alfred Bernheim. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1992.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Landscape photographs, architectural photographs and views from Jerusalem and Palestine: children in a lane, a Falafel seller, elderly Bukharan Jews in a synagogue, Armenian monks in the Old City lanes, a group of Arabs in a Debka dance, children playing in the Israel Museum Sculpture Garden, a carved column in a Mawazin arcade on the Temple Mount, Hebrew University buildings on Mount Scopus (see next item), an illuminated leaf from a manuscript (apparently the Rothschild Miscellany), view in the desert, and more.
Ricarda Schwerin (1912-1999), born in Germany, studied architecture and photography in the Bauhaus school. She was expelled from the school due to her communist views. Schwerin immigrated to Palestine in 1935 and worked as an independent photographer and partner of Alfred Bernheim over many years. She specialized in portraits and architectural photography. Many of the photographs attributed to Bernheim were in fact taken by her or were a joint work of the two.
Nine of the photographs are ink-stamped on the back with photographer's stamp; others are attributed to her. A printed information note is pasted to the back of one photograph (English).
Enclosed: Printed card, "Greetings for the New Year", by Alfred Bernheim and Ricarda Schwerin. The card is blank and was most probably designated for pasting a photograph.
Average size: 23.5X18 cm. Good condition. Some creases and blemishes at margins of photographs. Pasting traces on the back of a number of photographs.
Literature: Faces, Facades and More, the Photographs of Alfred Bernheim. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1992.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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