Kate Steinitz
Germany (1889—1975)In 1913 she married Dr. Steinitz and settled in Hannover, where she established a literary salon while pursuing her interests in painting and drawing and becoming involved with Dada. She later founded APOSS Verlag, a publishing house devoted to “typographically new and progressive work”, and began collaborating with Kurt Schwitters on children’s books in 1924, producing Der Hahnepeter, Das Märchen vom Paradies and, in 1925, Die Scheuche. Alongside her artistic activities, she worked as a freelance writer, contributing short stories to Hannoverscher Kurier and Hannoverscher Anzeiger, and also worked as a photojournalist. In 1935 the Nazi regime banned her from publishing, leading her to leave Germany for New York in 1936, where she worked as a commercial artist and researcher. After her husband died in 1942, she moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as a librarian and devoted herself to the study of Leonardo da Vinci.
