Anna Margareta ("Annegret") Bamberger married Karesh

Author: Manfred Brösamle- Lambrecht

“Ann Karesh’s paintings carries with it the color and joy of which she seems to surround her life and travels”

– John Richard Craft, Director Columbia Museum of Art

Anna Margareta (“Annegret”) Bamberger was born in Lichtenfels on August 26, 1923, the daughter of Ludwig and Thea Bamberger.

She showed exceptional artistic talent at a young age and studied painting at the Rosenberg School in Switzerland from 1936. After her family fled to England to escape the Nazis in 1938, she furthered her studies at Willesden College in London and at the Hornsey School of Art.

While living in London in 1942, Anna met Karl Karesh, a soldier in the US Army. They married in London in 1943 and returned to Charleston, where he was from, after the war. Inspired by the Bauhaus architecture she had been exposed to through her parents and also the family business from childhood, Ann Karesh designed a modern home overlooking the marsh on Woodward Rd in the Moreland neighborhood of West Ashley, where she raised her three children. Her home was filled with art, books and culture.

Ann Karesh, as she called herself as an artist, is best known for her extensive body of painting and sculpture, for which she won numerous awards. For legal reasons, her works cannot be reproduced here, but her artist homepage provides an impressive insight into her work. It is well worth a visit: https://www.annkaresh.com.

Ann's early education in Germany and Switzerland gave her a strong cultural connection to Europe that has stayed with her throughout her life. She frequently visited Mediterranean coastal regions in search of artistic inspiration. Her works reflect these landscapes: Greece, the French Riviera and Israel.

Ann Karesh passed away peacefully on August 13, 2019 surrounded by family.

„Ann exemplified the dignity and willpower of her generation, raised in a Jewish-German family displaced during World War II and forced to rebuild her life in a foreign country as an immigrant and refugee. Her paintings and sculptures immortalize her memory, spirit, and beauty.

(From her obituary https://obits.postandcourier.com/us/obituaries/charleston/name/ann-karesh-obituary?id=2068673 

and her Homepage: https://www.annkaresh.com )

Photo: Anna Bamberger, married Karesh