Gerti Deutsch

[citation needed] On graduation, her goal was a career as a concert pianist but, owing to neuritis in her right arm, her recitals were not to go far beyond entertaining her parents' social gatherings.

[citation needed] Deutsch's main body of work covers the years between 1937 and the mid-1960s, and included portraiture and travel, family photographs ("Children a Speciality" it said on her business card) and editorial stories as well as photo-journalism.

[8] Over a period of thirty years, Deutsch produced a large number of photographic features—initially for Queen, The Sphere and Bystander, magazines that supplied references for her to obtain a work permit and the right to reside in Britain from 1937 onwards.

Small wonder that Queen magazine wrote to the Home Office that: "Fraulein Deutsch is doing valuable artistic work of a kind not usually found in this country".

The harrowing scenes she witnessed in compiling this and A Foreign Correspondent's Life (with Anthony Terry) may well have affected her decision not to return to live in Vienna once her two daughters had grown up.

Like most of the relatively few women photographers on Picture Post, Deutsch shot a number of "soft" stories, including a couple on nursery schools and a long saga involving two children and their lost poodle.

As well as an increasing number of travel features – almost invariably going off the beaten track, frequently taking herself over mountains and down unmade roads in her tiny sports car.

From the start of her career, she took many portraits of great musicians, including composers, instrumentalists and opera singers, such as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Franz Schmidt, Dea Gombrich, Edwin Fischer, Yehudi Menuhin, Benjamin Britten, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Arthur Schnabel, Herbert von Karajan, Irmgard Seefried, Kathleen Ferrier, Fritz Busch and Clifford Curzon.

[14] A dual-language catalogue, with essays by Wolfgang Suschitzky, Amanda Hopkinson, Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Kurt Kaindl and over 100 images was published by Fotohof edition.