Margaret Leiteritz

Margaret Leiteritz, (born 1907), 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 (she was a professional Librarian before becoming a painter).

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 color 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" (1966; oil on linen) 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.

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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