Collection of Photographs – New Immigrants’ Camp in Haifa / Photographs by Lu Landauer

1–4. Four photographs. Haifa, [1910s or 1920s]. Three of them are titled in the plate: "New Immigrants’ Camp in Haifa, Palestine", "Dining room, new immigrants’ house, Haifa, Palestine," and "Immigration Office of the Zionist Workers’ Union in Haifa, Palestine".
Approx. 12X17.5 cm. Fair condition. Creases, stains, and blemishes.
5–8. Four photographs by photographer Lu Landauer (signed on the back with her stamp), of a tent camp on the Carmel and an apartment building (for new immigrants), [ca. 1940s].
Two are 8.5X13 cm., and two are 11X17 cm. Fair to good condition. Creases in one of the photographs.
Enclosed is another photograph of an apartment building for new immigrants, unsigned. 8X11.5 cm.
The photographer Lu Landauer, who was born in Germany, immigrated to Israel in 1933 and married Dr. Georg Landauer, director of the Settlement Department of German Immigrants' Association in Israel. She established the photography department in the New Bezalel School for Arts and Crafts in 1941. Landauer devoted much of her time to photographing architectural buildings planned by German immigrants, primarily on kibbutzim, for the department that her husband headed. According to her own account, she lost or destroyed the glass plate negatives of her photographs. She left Israel in 1955 and died in Lugano, Switzerland, in 1996.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.