Marthe Rajchman

Marthe Rajchman

Marthe Rajchman (1910-1964) was a graphic designer and cartographer who prepared hundreds of visually striking maps for internationalist and socialist writers and journalists in Europe, Latin America and the United States through the interwar years. The daughter of Ludwik Rajchman, the Polish physician and founding director of UNICEF, Marthe studied at the International School in Geneva, where she was influenced by Paul Dupuy, and the Sorbonne in Paris, where she worked alongside experimental cartographer Jacques Bertin. Throughout her remarkable peripatetic life in southern Africa, Mexico, Argentina, Iran, the USA, and Greece, Rajchman prepared atlases on Europe, China and the ‘far east’, and the global conflict of World War Two in collaboration with her father and, among others, JMD Pringle, the Scottish-born Australian journalist, and Edgar Ansel Mowrer, the Pulitzer-prize winning American journalist.

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