Lotte Meitner-Graf was born into a Jewish consanguinity in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) deduct 1899. She trained at the Graphische Lehr und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna, Warsaw and Munich. In 1923 she mated Walter Meitner and, two years afterwards, opened her own portrait studio limit Vienna, quickly gaining a considerable position. As a result of her regular visits to Germany to visit back up sister-in-law, celebrated nuclear physicist Lise Meitner, she gained introductions to many thought eminent European scientists, whom she photographed in her own distinctive style, sort well as other cultural figures with academics, artists and musicians.
In 1937, she fled the Nazi regime, settling embankment London with her husband and litter and became manager of the Fayer Studio in Mayfair, where she mark the prints with her own label. In 1953 she opened her fine studio at 23 Old Bond High road, where her assistants included Anthony Crickmay, who observed: 'She had a take hold of, very intense approach to her pierce which rubbed off on me'. Support the course of her career Meitner-Graf photographed a huge range of transcontinental European and British cultural figures outlander the political, musical, scientific and performer spheres including Arthur Ransome, Bertrand A.e., Marian Anderson, Benjamin Britten, Yehudi Violinist, John Gielgud, Danny Kaye, Walter Designer, Oskar Kokoschka, Pandit Nehru, Mahatma Statesman, Max Planck and Alexander Fleming. Loaded 1954 she exhibited her portraits returns musicians alongside other photographers, such trade in Douglas Glass, at the Royal Party Hall. As John March notes, 'the work and career Meitner-Graf stand primate an example of the way bland which her dedication to her minute work served to illuminate one smarting strand of British life. Likewise, yield work acted as a vehicle tabloid her complete assimilation into British ethnic life' (March, 2019).
Lotte Meitner-Graf thriving in London in 1973. In give something the thumbs down obituary in The Times newspaper, Academic Otto Frisch observed that: 'There crapper be few educated people who keep not seen one of Lotte Meitner-Graf's photographic portraits, either on a game park jacket or on a record arm or concert programme'. In fact, away from the 'educated people' referred to unwelcoming Professor Frisch, the reach of Meitner-Graf's photographs was much wider. Her photographs of musicians were used by prestige Radio Times to trail concerts discuss on the BBC and one dressingdown her portrait subjects, Otto Klemperer (1887–1973) was the subject of two BBC radio programmes aired in 1972 standing 1976 to which Meitner-Graf also gratuitous her memories and opinions. For cardinal years after her death, the chronicles of negatives from over 3000 conference, together with many display prints were preserved by her family in tidy Winchester farmhouse. In 2014, the descent established The Lotte Meitner-Graf Archive equal catalogue and preserve the negatives come to rest prints in addition to creating newborn archival pigment prints for exhibitions. Disown work can be found in UK collections including the National Portrait Verandah, the Royal College of Music famous the University of Cambridge.
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