Margaret Leiteritz

Painting, Visual Artist

1907 – 1976

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Who was Margaret Leiteritz?

Margaret Leiteritz was a German painter.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, Leiteritz produced her 'painted diagrams', which drew heavily from the scientific articles and books in her care.

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, into a dynamic painting. Other works are reminiscent of a Bunsen burner flame or a DNA gel.

One of her most famous paintings, "Crossing at the Left Border", 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.

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Born
1907
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Died
1976

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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