List of German women photographers
This is a list of women photographers who were born in Germany or whose works are closely associated with that country.
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Tina Bara (born 1962), freelance artistic photographerUta Barth (born 1958), art photographyCarla Bartheel (1902–1983), film actress and photographerHilla Becher (1934–2015), together with her brother Bernd, produced typologies of industrial buildings and structuresBertha Beckmann (1815–1901), possibly Germany's first professional woman photographerKatharina Behrend (1888–1973), see Netherlands Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010), chronicler of social life in East GermanyElla Bergmann-Michel (1896–1971), abstract painter, photographer, filmmakerRuth Bernhard (1905–2006), German-born American lesbian photographerEmilie Bieber (1810–1884), pioneer who opened a studio in Hamburg as early as 1852Aenne Biermann (1898–1933), of the New Objectivity movementIlse Bing (1899–1998), versatile photographer (fashion, architecture, etc.) from the 1920s to the 1950s, often using remarkable compositionsAnna Blume (1937–2011), staged photographs and installations, often depicting herself and her husband BernhardDorothy Bohm (1924–2023), see United Kingdom Jenny Bossard-Biow (1813 – after 1858), possibly the first woman in Germany to have made daguerreotypesMarianne Breslauer (1909–2001), active in the early 1930sKäthe Buchler (1876–1930), documented WWI in Braunschweig, GermanyTraude Bührmann (born 1942), writer, journalist, photographer
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Frauke Eigen (born 1969), photographer of the aftermath of war in Kosovo
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Lisel Haas (1898–1989), German-born Jewish photographer who moved to BritainEsther Haase (born 1966), photographer, film directorElisabeth Hase (1905–1991), commercial and documentary photographerAlma Haser (born 1989), portrait photographerSandra Hastenteufel (born 1966), contemporary artist, photographerRoswitha Hecke (born 1944), photojournalistAnnemarie Heinrich (1912–2005), see Argentina Nanna Heitmann (born 1994)Lotte Herrlich (1883–1956), photographer of naturism during the 1920sJuliane Herrmann (born 1989), photographer curating photography exhibitionsHannah Höch (1889–1978), pioneer of photomontage , participated in the Dada movementMarta Hoepffner (1912–2000), artist, photographerCandida Höfer (born 1944), highly precise large-format depictions of guest workers in Germany, interiors, zoos, capturing the psychology of social architectureSabine Hornig (born 1964), photographer and contemporary artist depicting architecture and urban lifeWalde Huth (1923–2011), fashion photographer
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Ingeborg Kahlenberg (1920–1996), photographer for the Dutch resistanceJohanna Keimeyer (born 1982), photographer, artistAnnette Kelm (born 1975), contemporary artist, photographerAstrid Kirchherr (1938–2020), photographed the Beatles before they became famousEmma Kirchner (1830–1909), trained in Leipzig, moved to Netherlands as first woman photographer in Delft areaBarbara Klemm (active 1959–2004), press photographerKatrin Korfmann (born 1971), fine art photographerMonika Kropshofer (born 1952), painter, photographerGermaine Krull (1897–1985), photographer, activistMarie Kundt (1870–1932), photographer, educator
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Lisa Larsen (1925–1959), pioneering woman photojournalistErna Lendvai-Dircksen (1883–1962), photographer of rural individuals, collected in books that sold well in the Nazi periodEsther Levine (born 1970), urban and street photography Alice Lex-Nerlinger (1893–1975), artist in the media of painting, photography, photomontage and photogramsAnnelise Löffler (1914–2000), active in the world of danceBarbara Luisi (fl 2000s), photographer and musicianLoretta Lux (born 1969), fine art photographer known for surreal portraits of young childrenRut Blees Luxemburg (born 1967), photographer of night scenes
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Melanie Manchot (born 1966), specializes in photographs of people in public, sometimes inviting them to undressJeanne Mandello (1907–2001), modern experimental photographer, studio in Paris, later moved to South AmericaAnne Menke (born 1967), German-born editorial photographer, based in New YorkHansel Mieth (1909–1998), see United States Lucia Moholy (1894–1989), see Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic Hedda Morrison (1908–1991), early photographs of Peking , Hong Kong and Sarawak , later lived and exhibited in Australia
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Hildegard Ochse (1935–1997), freelance photographer, educatorLi Osborne (1883–1968), German-born British photographer and sculptor
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Katja Rahlwes (born 1967), fashion photographerElfriede Reichelt (1883–1953), fine art photographerClaudia Reinhardt (born 1964), contemporary photographerRegina Relang (1906–1989), fashion photographerEvelyn Richter (1930–2021), art photographer active in social documentary photographyUrsula Richter (1886–1946), dance and theatre photography in Dresden Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), film director and dancer who also published photos of the Nuba tribes in Sudan and, later, marine lifeFrieda Riess (1890–c. 1955), German portrait photographer in the 1920s with a studio in central BerlinTata Ronkholz (1940–1997)Hildegard Rosenthal (1913–1990), German photographer who became a photojournalist and a noted photographer after her emigration to Brazil.
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Eva Sandberg-Xiao (1911–2001), photographer in Russia and ChinaThyra Schmidt (born 1974), art photography and new media artistStefanie Schneider (born 1968), photographer of the American westUrsula Schulz-Dornburg (born 1938), photographer in black and whiteGundula Schulze Eldowy (born 1954), art photographerHanni Schwarz (born c. 1901 ), nude and portrait photographerElse Seifert (1879–1968), architectural photographerHeji Shin (born 1976), art and fashion photographerKatharina Sieverding (born 1944), self-portraitistAnnegret Soltau (born 1946), stitched photomontages of the human bodyGrete Stern (1904–1999), see Argentina Liselotte Strelow (1908–1981), employed by Kodak
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Yva (1900–c. 1942 ), German Jewish photographer, multiple exposed images
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See also
Lists of women photographers by nationality