Emmy Roth

Goldsmith and Silversmith

Emmy Roth, née Emmy Urias, married name: Emmy Baehr and Emmy Roth, was one of the most significant German silversmiths of the early twentieth century and was internationally renowned. She was born on 12 Mai 1885 in Hattingen, Germany, and died on 11 Jul 1942 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Educated at the Conrad Anton Beumers silversmith company under Paul Beumers, as well as other goldsmith and silversmith workshops; one of the first women in Germany to obtain a master’s certificate, Roth designed and produced functional objects of an elegant simplicity that were constructed with technical virtuosity. Roth knew how to publicize her products and periodically presented her work at the Leipzig trade fair. She participated in the groundbreaking Kult und Form (Ritual and Form) exhibition in Berlin in 1930, in the 1931 German building exhibition, and the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris at the “Israel in Palestine” pavilion of the British Mandate Palestine.

Roth lived in Germany, France, and, finally, Tel Aviv. Suffering from cancer, she committed suicide in 1942. Her work was forgotten.