Marthe Rajchman

Marthe Rajchman (1910–1964) was a Polish cartographer and graphic designer. Rajchman was an internationalist who was considered a relatively famous cartographer, known for the "high standards of clarity, simplicity and accuracy" of her work. She published most of her work between 1938 and 1944. Throughout 1938, she published a series of maps for various authors, the first being Shiela Grant Duff's book Europe and the Czechs. In the same year she worked on her largest project in collaboration with Alexander Radó, when she created 209 maps for ''The Atlas of To-day and To-morrow''. In 1939, she married and the family moved first to Johannesburg then the US where she created maps documenting the geopolitical geography of World War II and then later migrated to South America, then later the Middle East and Southern Europe as he husbands job moved location. In each place she would take commissions as the opportunity presented. In 1951 she contracted cancer but continued to work, returning to the USA in 1961 where the family settled. She died three years later. Provided by Wikipedia