Liselotte Grschebina
Liselotte Grschebina ( Grjebina ) ( born 2 May 1908 in Karlsruhe, † 14 June 1994 Petach Tikva, Israel) was an Israeli- German photographer.
Biography
Liselotte Grschebina ( Grjebina ) was born on 2 May 1908 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Her parents, Rosa and Otto Billigheimer, both were Jewish. Otto Billigheimer fell during the First World War in 1916. Grschebina studied from 1925 to 1929 painting and graphic design at the Baden State Art School ( BLK) in Karlsruhe and then continued her studies in commercial photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart on. In 1932 she opened the photo studio " Bilfoto " with which she specialized in children photography and in the process also was training company.
1933, due to the rise of the Nazis and their policy of expropriation of Jewish citizens, Grschebina was forced to close her studio. Before she left Germany, she married Dr. Jacob ( Jasha ) Grzhebin. The couple arrived in March 1934 to Tel Aviv. In the same year opened Grschebina there the Ishon studio in Allenby street, along with her friend Ellen Rosenberg ( Auerbach ), who had worked at the Berlin photo studio with her.
In 1936, the studio was closed again, as Rosenberg left Israel. From then on sat Grebschina their work without the studio continues. From 1934 to 1947 she worked as the official photographer of the Zionist women's organization WIZO. In 1939 she founded together with other photographers German origin, the Palestine Professional Photographers Association ( PPPA ), the first independent organization of photographers in the country. From the 1930s until the 1950s Grschebina also photographed for Palestine Railways, the dairy product company Tnuva, within various kibbutzim and for some smaller commercial customers.
Liselotte Grschebina died on 14 June 1994 at the age of 86 years in Petach Tikva. Your photographic archive was bequeathed to the Israel of her son, Beni Gjebin and his wife Rina Museum in Jerusalem.
Style
The photographs by Liselotte Grschebina that were rediscovered by chance in a kitchen cabinet in Tel Aviv, revealing a photographic talent that would have been potentially hidden. Grschebina emigrated in 1934 from Germany to Palestine as an experienced professional photographer. She was influenced by the revolutionary movements in the Weimar Republic, the New Sachklichkeit in painting and the new form of vision in photography as well as a number of renowned professors, including The artist was and Wilhelm Schnarrenberger. Unlike other of their colleagues, who sought to determine their identity in the collective Zionist endeavor by documented this in her work and praised Grschebina took the photography not to train their identity. Her style was already rather pronounced and she stopped the ideals and principles of the Weimar art in their new home determine where they continue ausformte this. The exhibition at the Israel Museum was the first time a larger section of 1,800 photographs from her estate and presented both Grschebinas life as well as her work for the first time in public. Grschebinas artistic work is clearly rooted in the New Look, which defined the photography as an artistic activity and photographers come calling to portray their motives to new, different way. Grschebinas style characterizes its perspectivity, the strong diagonals and reflections. She plays the role of light and shadows that create geometric shapes and thereby determine their photographs in their composition.
In Israel Grschebina worked mostly outside the studio where she perceived their environment, with a vigilant, unprejudiced eye. She photographed, for example, people who unconsciously going about the camera, their daily routine. The viewer of Grschebinas photographs thus becomes the observer who nevertheless gets an insight and to develop a new, objective perspective on the subject of photography. This " objective" picture, as opposed to questions, subjective photography was based on the photographer as László Moholy -Nagy, who is regarded as the genius of the New Vision.
- Pictures of Liselotte Grschebina
At the railway junction, Lod, photo for Palestine Railways, circa 1940, Israel Museum Collection, B01.0244 ( 0104)
Rosh Hanikra, 1960, Israel Museum Collection, B01.0244 ( 0129)
Sports in Israel - a discus thrower, 1937, Israel Museum Collection, B01.0244 (1823 )
Worker at Primazon Ltd.. , Netanya, circa 1937, Israel Museum Collection, B01.0244 ( 0534 )