Margaret Leiteritz
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Margaret Leiteritz (1907–1976) was a German painter who studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1928 to 1931.[1]
In the 1960s and early 1970s, Leiteritz produced 'painted diagrams', which drew heavily from the scientific articles and books in her care as she was a professional librarian before becoming a painter.
Many of her works were strongly influenced by chemical engineering, and especially the field's graphs which depicted physical properties of substances. Leiteritz's paintings typically reworked a mundane graph using large expanses of colour and a bold abstract theme, changing it into a dynamic painting. Other works are reminiscent of Bunsen burner flame or DNA gel.
One of her most famous paintings, "Crossing at the Left Border" (1966; oil on linen), appeared on the cover of the catalogue for an art exhibition in Chicago in 1969. This painting is known to have been inspired by a specific graph appearing in an otherwise unremarkable paper of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering Journal.
Her work has much in common with that of Paul Klee.
References[]
- ^ Lindemann, Klaus E. R. (2001) Die Bauhauskünstlerin Margaret Leiteritz: Gemalte Diagramme. Karlsruhe: INFO Verlag. ISBN 978-3881900508
- 1907 births
- 1976 deaths
- 20th-century German painters
- 20th-century German women artists
- German women painters
- Bauhaus alumni
- German painter stubs