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Ricarda Schwerin, Israeli, born Germany, 1912-1999. Ricarda Schwerin (nee Meltzer) was born in Gettingen, Germany. After the death of her mother, she was sent to live with relatives. In 1933, when the Nazis rose to power, she left the country with Heinz Schwerin, an architecture student and her future husband, fleeing to Switzerland through Czechoslovakia and Hungary. She immigrated to the Land of Israel in 1935 and settled in Jerusalem. The couple established a toymaking workshop. Schwerin also worked in commercial photography. When her husband died in the Israeli War of Independence, she stopped doing photography for several years. She returned to it in 1956, joining the studio of Alfred Bernheim, who became her life partner. After Bernheim's death, she continued to run the studio on her own. Schwerin photographed portaits and architecture. Together with Bernheim, she documented the Christian community in Jerusalem. Her archive of negatives is in the Israel Museum collection. Died in 1999, in Jerusalem.

Education

1929-1933 Bauhaus, Dassau, Germany