Lotte meitner-graf biography
Lotte meitner-graf biography
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Born:1899 Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
Died:1973 London, England
Year of Migration to the UK:1937
Other name/s: Lotte Graf
Biography
Lotte Meitner-Graf was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) in 1899.
She trained at the Graphische Lehr und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna, Warsaw and Munich. In 1923 she married Walter Meitner and, two years later, opened her own portrait studio in Vienna, quickly gaining a considerable reputation.
As a result of her frequent visits to Germany to visit her sister-in-law, celebrated nuclear physicist Lise Meitner, she gained introductions to many other eminent European scientists, whom she photographed in her own distinctive style, as well as other cultural figures including academics, artists and musicians.
In 1937, she fled the Nazi regime, settling in London with her husband and son and became manager of the Fayer Studio in Mayfair, where she signed the prints with her own name.
In 1953