Ruth Bamberger

Ruth Bamberger was a Swiss-born Israeli painter who lived and worked in Jerusalem.

1900 to 1976Painting in JerusalemTeaching painting and batik at BezalelWorks in the Israel Museum

Occupation: painter

Ruth Bamberger was born in 1900 in Basel

Ruth Bamberger was born in Basel, Switzerland. She studied at the art academy in Zurich and at the art academy in Munich from 1926 to 1930.

She immigrated to the Land of Israel in 1934 and lived on Ethiopia Street in Jerusalem. That year she studied with the painters Jakob Steinhardt, Isidor Aschheim and Mordecai Ardon.

From 1946 she held many solo exhibitions, including shows in Jerusalem, at the Dizengoff Museum in Tel Aviv, in Zurich and in the United States. In 1966 she worked with the painter Marilyn Dintenfass in Jerusalem, and in 1966 and 1967 she taught painting and batik at Bezalel. Her works are held at the Israel Museum and in the Katherine Yochelson collection at the Center for Jewish History in New York.

She died in Jerusalem in 1976. She was survived by her husband Uri Bamberger and her only daughter, the architect Tamar Carmi. A memorial exhibition was held at Nora Gallery in Jerusalem in 1987.