Lothar Brieger (1882–1951) was a German art historian and journalist of Jewish descent. Born in Kanth, his family moved to Berlin during his childhood. He completed commercial training and worked for the Haus Bergmann A.G. cigarette factory before serving as a private first class in World War I. Brieger became known for his writings on visual culture and representation; he published several works including 'Das Frauengesicht der Gegenwart' (1930), which explored women's photography in the Weimar Republic, and 'Die Romantische Malerei'. Following the Nazi rise to power, he was forced into exile and eventually emigrated to Shanghai. In 1940, after losing his eyesight due to complications from an eye operation during the November Pogroms of 1938, he trained as a brush-maker and worked in Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind until late 1943. He died in Berlin in 1951.[1,2]
