Lotte Meitner-Graf (1899–1973, born as Charlotte Graf), was a noted Austrian black-and-white portrait photographer. She was married to physicist Lise Meitner's brother Walter (1891–1961).
Meitner-Graf moved to England with her family in 1937, opening her own studio at 23 Old Bond Street in London in 1953.[1][2][3][4] Frisch, in his Times obituary, noted that there "can be few educated people who have not seen one of Lotte Meitner-Graf’s photographic portraits, either on a book jacket (for instance, Bertrand Russell’s autobiography, or Antony Hopkins’s Music All Around Me) or on a record sleeve or concert programme."[5]
She photographed Albert Schweitzer, musicians Marion Anderson, Otto Klemperer and Yehudi Menuhin; actors John Gielgud and Danny Kaye; and scientists Lord Blackett, William Lawrence Bragg, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Max Perutz.[5]
References edit
- ^ Jetse Reijenga's page on Lotte Meitner Archived 2012-07-28 at archive.today (Accessed April 2012)
- ^ Beaton,Cecil and Buckland, Gail (1989) The magic image: the genius of photography, Pavilion
- ^ Janus:Graf, Lotte Meitner - (d 1973) photographer (Accessed April 2012)
- ^ Paul Frecker - 19th Century Photography London (Accessed April 2012)
- ^ a b Frisch, O. R. (1973) Obituary: Lotte Meitner-Graf (1899–1973) The Times, 2 May