Lotte Meitner-Graf Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.dse.nl/~jetse/lottemeitner/index.htm Jetse Reijenga's page on Lotte Meitner
  2. Beaton,Cecil and Buckland, Gail (1989) The magic image: the genius of photography, Pavilion
  3. http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=CV%2FPers%2FGraf%2C%20Lotte%20Meitner%20-%20(d%201973)%20photographer Janus:Graf, Lotte Meitner - (d 1973) photographer
  4. http://www.paulfrecker.com/pictureDetails.cfm?pagetype=home&typeID=5&ID=5777 Paul Frecker - 19th Century Photography London
  5. Frisch, O. R. (1973) Obituary: Lotte Meitner-Graf (1899–1973) The Times, 2 May