Rudi Weissenstein

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Rudi Weissenstein
Mandate Palestine, Israel
Known forphotography

Shimon Rudolf "Rudi" Weissenstein (

David Ben Gurion in 1948 are by Weissenstein, who built a collection of over a million negatives.[1]

Biography

Weissenstein in 1936
David Ben Gurion reading the Declaration of Independence
Rudi and Miriam Weissenstein in 1979

Rudi Weissenstein was born in 1910 in the Bohemian-Moravian town of

David Ben Gurion, where he was the only accredited photographer.[2]

Legacy

Rudi Weissenstein died in 1992 and his estate – a photo archive of more than 250,000 negatives was managed and maintained by his widow until her death in 2011. Since 2011, the archive and Photo House is managed by his grandson Ben Peter Weissenstein in a new store on Tshernichovski Street, received from the Tel Aviv municipality. Miriam Weissenstein and Ben Peter Weissenstein were part of the documentary film "Life In Stills"[3] by Tamar Tal, dealing among other things with the history of Rudi Weissenstein's photo house.[4]

Exhibitions

Weissenstein's photographs have been shown and awarded numerous prizes in Israel and abroad, among others in 1961 with the award at the International Photography Exhibition in Moscow for the recording "Working Hands". His works were exhibited in Heussenstamm Gallery in Frankfurt, Germany; Eckhart Gallery, The Hague; The Jewish Museum in Munich, Germany.[5] The last exhibition in Germany "Your happy eyes" in 2010 was opened by Miriam Weissenstein.

Bibliography

  • Dvir Ori: Rudi Weissenstein. Israel Early Photographs. Modan Publishing House, Ben-Shemen 2008, .
  • Michal Amram, Anna-Patricia Kahn, Ben Peter (Hrsg.): Rudi. Discovering the Weissenstein Archive. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2016, .

See also

  • Ze'ev Aleksandrowicz (1905–1992), Polish-born photographer, active in Mandate Palestine between 1932 and 1935
  • Zoltan Kluger (1896–1977), important photographer in pre-state Israel
  • David Rubinger (1924–2017), Israeli photographer, author of photo of paratroopers at the Western Wall in Six-Day War
  • Samuel Joseph Schweig (1905–1985), landscape and archaeology photographer in Mandate Palestine and early Israel
  • de:Herbert Sonnenfeld (1906–1972), German Jewish photographer, husband of Leni, photographed in Mandate Palestine in the 1930s[6]
  • Leni Sonnenfeld (1907–2004), German Jewish photographer, wife of Herbert, photographed Israel in the early years of its existence[6]

References

  1. ^ "Rudi Weissenstein". Retrieved 2018-09-22.
  2. ^ Avidan, Igal. "Pictures of a city". Der Tagesspiegel Online. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
  3. ^ Tal, Tamar. "Life in Stills". tamartal.com. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
  4. ^ Tchechik, Daniel (2017-11-20). "The Year Is 1936. A Man Picks Up a Camera, Captures an Israel That's No More". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  5. ^ "Rudi Weissenstein". Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  6. ^ a b Beit Hatfutsot Photo Collections, The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection, accessed April 2020


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