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1904 |
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Grete Stern is born in Germany |
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1906 |
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Ellen Auerbach was born Ellen Rosenberg in Karlsruhe, Germany, on May 20 |
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1928 |
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Auerbach studied at the Academy of Art in Stuttgart |
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1929 |
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Formed a commercial photography studio in Berlin named Ringl & Pit where the two women collaboratively produced advertising, still lifes and studio portraits |
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1933 |
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Mrs. Auerbach and Ms. Stern received first prize at an international exhibition in Brussels for "Komol," an advertising still life constructed like a collage out of layers of paper, wire screen and artificial curls of hair |
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1933 |
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Closed their studio shortly after Hitler came to power |
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1933 |
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Auerbach emigrated to Tel Aviv, London and, in 1937, the United States |
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1933 |
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Stern left for London and later Argentina |
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1965 |
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Auerbach began working as an educational therapist at the Educational Institute for Learning and Research in New York, where for 19 years she taught children with learning disabilities |
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1999 |
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Grete Stern dies, in Buenos Aires, at age 94 |
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2004 |
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Ellen Auerbach dies at the age of 98 |
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According to the photographers, the studio name was simply a combination of their childhood nicknames: Grete Stern was called Ringl and Ellen Rosenberg was called Pit |
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