Ursula Wolff Schneider

Ursula Wolff was born in Berlin, Germany, and is the daughter of renowned Sanskrit scholar Dr. Fritz Wolff and Minna Wolff.[1] She was married to German architect Karl Schneider (de).

In the mid-to-late 1920s, Ursula Wolff spent two years in Berlin, Vienna, and Hamburg working as an apprentice in photographers' studios and honing her talents. In 1928 – at the age of 22 – she established her own studio, Foto Wolff Lichtbildwerkstatt, and began working as a free-lance photographer.[2]

She left Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1937.[1] She spent her life in Chicago and was killed August 4, 1977 in an automobile accident.[3]

She lived in Chicago, where she worked as a medical photographer at the Michael Reese Hospital from 1937 to 1942.[4] Ursula Schneider was the Photographer of the Oriental Institute from 1942 until her retirement in 1973.[5]

Collections With Images by Ursula Wolff Schneider:[6]

• Deutsches Archeological Institut, Rome, Italy
• Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Florenz, Italy
• Kunsthistorisches Institut, Marburg, Germany
• Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany
• National Gallerie, Berlin, Germany
• Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin, Germany
• Warburg Haus, Hamburg, Germany
• Warburg Institute, London, UK
• British Museum, London, UK
• University of London, UK
• Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
• Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
• Columbia University, New York, NY
• University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

• Family Tree at GENI