Lotte Meitner-Graf

Lotte Meitner-Graf (1899–1973), born 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

  1. Jetse Reijenga's page on Lotte Meitner Archived 2012-07-28 at archive.today (Accessed April 2012)
  2. Beaton,Cecil and Buckland, Gail (1989) The magic image: the genius of photography, Pavilion
  3. Janus:Graf, Lotte Meitner - (d 1973) photographer (Accessed April 2012)
  4. Paul Frecker - 19th Century Photography London (Accessed April 2012)
  5. Frisch, O. R. (1973) Obituary: Lotte Meitner-Graf (1899–1973) The Times, 2 May
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