Ruth Bernhard

Ruth Bernhard ( * October 14, 1905 in Berlin, † December 18, 2006 in San Francisco) was an American photographer of German origin. She was a daughter of the famous poster artist and typographer Lucian Bernhard and his temporary wife Gertrud Aronhold.

Life

Born in Berlin in 1905 emigrated Ruth Bernhard after her studies at the Berlin School of Art in 1927 to New York. There she worked for a time in the darkroom of the City magazine The Delineator. In 1935 she met the photographer Edward Weston and moved to Carmel -by-the -Sea, there to learn photography. Finally, she opened her own studio in Hollywood, where she often created portraits of children celebrities. 1953 she moved to San Francisco.

Work

Ruth Bernhard focused on the artistic representation of still life and children. In the 1950s and 1960s, she found her passion in nude photography, long before it was socially accepted.

Worldwide, there were already more than 200 exhibitions of her paintings.

Since 1996, her works are a permanent part of the archive from Princeton University.