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.

A

  • Louise Abel (1841–1907), German-born Norwegian photographer
  • Gertrud Arndt (1903–2000), created self-portraits from around 1930
  • Ursula Arnold (1929–2012), street scenes in Berlin and Leipzig during the German Democratic Republic
  • Ellen Auerbach (1906–2004), see United States

B

  • Tina Bara (born 1962), freelance artistic photographer
  • Uta Barth (born 1958), art photography
  • Carla Bartheel (1902–1983), film actress and photographer
  • Hilla Becher (1934–2015), together with her brother Bernd, produced typologies of industrial buildings and structures
  • Bertha Beckmann (1815–1901), possibly Germany's first professional woman photographer
  • Katharina Behrend (1888–1973), see Netherlands
  • Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010), chronicler of social life in East Germany
  • Ella Bergmann-Michel (1896–1971), abstract painter, photographer, filmmaker
  • Ruth Bernhard (1905–2006), German-born American lesbian photographer
  • Emilie Bieber (1810–1884), pioneer who opened a studio in Hamburg as early as 1852
  • Aenne Biermann (1898–1933), of the New Objectivity movement
  • Ilse Bing (1899–1998), versatile photographer (fashion, architecture, etc.) from the 1920s to the 1950s, often using remarkable compositions
  • Anna Blume (1937–2011), staged photographs and installations, often depicting herself and her husband Bernhard
  • Dorothy Bohm (1924–2023), see United Kingdom
  • Jenny Bossard-Biow (1813 – after 1858), possibly the first woman in Germany to have made daguerreotypes
  • Marianne Breslauer (1909–2001), active in the early 1930s
  • Käthe Buchler (1876–1930), documented WWI in Braunschweig, Germany
  • Traude Bührmann (born 1942), writer, journalist, photographer

C

D

E

  • Frauke Eigen (born 1969), photographer of the aftermath of war in Kosovo

F

G

H

J

K

L

M

N

O

  • Hildegard Ochse (1935–1997), freelance photographer, educator
  • Li Osborne (1883–1968), German-born British photographer and sculptor

P

R

  • Katja Rahlwes (born 1967), fashion photographer
  • Elfriede Reichelt (1883–1953), fine art photographer
  • Claudia Reinhardt (born 1964), contemporary photographer
  • Regina Relang (1906–1989), fashion photographer
  • Evelyn Richter (1930–2021), art photographer active in social documentary photography
  • Ursula 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 life
  • Frieda Riess (1890–c. 1955), German portrait photographer in the 1920s with a studio in central Berlin
  • Tata 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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T

U

V

W

Y

  • Yva (1900–c. 1942), German Jewish photographer, multiple exposed images

Z

See also