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1906
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Born: May 20, Karlsruhe, Germany
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1929
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Relocated to Berlin to study photography with Walter Peterhans
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1929 - 1933
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While in her twenties, together with her colleague and friend Grete Stern, the then Ellen Rosenberg formed a commercial photography studio in Berlin named Ringl & Pit. The two women collaboratively produced advertising, still lifes and studio portraits that reflected the energetic, experimental style of their mentor, Walter Peterhans, a professional photographer who taught at the legendary Bauhaus design school.
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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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The two were forced to close their studio the same year, with Hitler coming to power.
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1934 - 1937
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Both of them were Jewish, and Auerbach emigrated to Tel Aviv, London and, in 1937, the United States.
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1940 - 1949
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Auerbach xperimented with infrared and ultraviolet fluorescence photography
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1960
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Completed documentation project of Indian culture in Gran Chaco, Argentina.
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2004
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Died: July 30, New York City
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Right Through the Very Heart of It, Robert Mann Gallery, NYC |
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Of the Refrain, Robert Mann Gallery, NYC |
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ringl+pit, The Folkwang Museum, Essen |
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