Background
Liselotte Strelow was born on September 11, 1908, in Redlo, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland.
Liselotte Strelow was born on September 11, 1908, in Redlo, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland.
Liselotte Strelow was tutored at home and then studied agriculture. She learned photography in Berlin beginning in 1930, first in the Lette-Verein (Lette Association or Lette Society).
In 1933 Liselotte Strelow was hired as an apprentice with Kodak in Germany, receiving her master's certificate by examination in 1936. She established a studio in 1938 in Berlin and a second in 1943 in Pommern, but the war forced her to abandon both, and she lost all but an old Rolleiflex.
In 1950 Liselotte Strelow moved to Düsseldorf, using it as a base from which she traveled and continued her photographic work. In 1969 she moved to Munich but gave up photography soon after when she was stricken with cancer.
Liselotte Strelow has also been actively involved in writing and making television films. Her technically simple, straightforward portraits are unique and appealing in their composition and use of light and are often quite revealing of the subject.