Gerty Simon

Gertrud Simon (1887–1970), known professionally as Gerty Simon, was a German photographer who worked during the interwar period. Born Gertrud Cohn in Bremen to a well-to-do Jewish family with her father being a lawyer, she practiced in Berlin and later in London.

Career She was a German-Jewish photographer who captured many important political and artistic figures in Weimar Berlin, including Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Liebermann and Albert Einstein. Her Berlin studio was at Clausewitzstrasse 2.

Simon was the subject of a major retrospective, Berlin/London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon, at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London from May–October 2019 followed by Gerty Simon. Berlin / London at the Liebermann Villa in Berlin in 2021.