1940 Hanna Rovina Signed Photo Meyer Sisters Palestine Jewish Germany Israel Art

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1940 Hanna Rovina Signed Photo Meyer Sisters Palestine Jewish Germany Israel Art:
$790.00

1940 Hanna Robina Signed Photo Meyer Sisters Palestine Jewish Germany Israel Art

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Hanna Robina Photographed by the sisters Charlotte & GerdaMeyer

Charlotte Meyer, photographer, born 1911, Germany. Died 1978.

Gerda Meyer, photographer, born 1913, Germany. Died 1993.

Hanna Rovina (1888 Belarus - 1980 Israel), also Chana Robina, Israeli actress,

is recognised as the original \"First Lady of the Hebrew Theatre\".

Mounted on cardboard and framed.

Signed in pencil in Hebrew and English: \"Ch. G.Meyer- Haifa/ חיפה- מאייר ג. ש\".

The sisters Charlotte (1911–1978) and Gerda (1913–1993) Meyer were born in Posen,

East Germany, and moved to Berlin in 1921.

Their education was overshadowed by the political climate:

Gerda was forced to abandon her medical studies at the University of Berlin

due to racial laws, while Charlotte opted to stay out of university and instead experiment with photography.

By 1933 they realized they had no future in Germany; at the end of 1934 Charlotte left for Palestine

and opened a photography studio in Haifa. Soon after, Gerda also decided to be a photographer,

studying with Professor Fritz August Breuhaus (1883–1960) and working

as an apprentice in the studio of Arno Kikoler, the official photographer of the Jewish community in Berlin.

In 1936 she joined her sister and together they worked in the Haifa photography studio,

which rapidly became highly regarded for portrait photographs and attracted an international clientele.

Their famous subjects included Arturo Toscanini, David Ben-Gurion, Bronislaw Hubermann,

Eugen Schenkar, Chaim Weizmann, Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan.

In the mid–1940s the sisters also pursued industrial photography and were commissioned

by the Iraq Petroleum Company to document the building works and refineries in Haifa Bay.

This series of modernist photographs emphasizes the form of the machinery rather than its function.

After Gerda left for Canada with her husband and daughter in 1953,

the studio remained open until 1957 when Charlotte moved to London.

Undated: 1940s\'

Photo Sizes:16.5 X22.5 cm, framed: 46 X 55 cm.

Of course there is no Copyright sign and reflections on the glass on the photo in real.

Condition: The photo in good condition, slight shiny.

The cardboard slight browned/stained by time.

In the original unopened frame.

You can enlarge the photos.

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