Ellen Auerbach

American Photographer · 1906–2004

7 works on LinkedCulture

Ellen Auerbach, née Rosenberg, was a sculpture student in Karlsruhe, Germany, when she was given her first camera in 1928. Soon after she began to study photography privately with Bauhaus professor Walter Peterhans in Berlin. There she met Grete Stern, with whom she would form the photographic partnership "foto ringl + pit." They specialized in advertising photography. In 1933 Auerbach gave up the