Minnie Weisz

Artist

Birthday December 1, 1972

Birth Sign Sagittarius

Birthplace Westminster, London, England

Age 51 years old

Nationality United Kingdom

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1929

Her father, George Weisz (1929–2020), was a Hungarian Jewish mechanical engineer.

1932

Her mother, Edith Ruth (née Teich; 1932–2016), was a teacher-turned-psychotherapist from Vienna, Austria.

1938

Her parents left for the United Kingdom around 1938, before the outbreak of the Second World War, to escape the Nazis.

Scholar Rev. James Parkes helped her mother and her mother's family leave Austria for England.

Her mother's ancestry is Austrian-Jewish, Catholic Viennese and Italian; Weisz's mother formally converted to Judaism upon marrying Weisz's father.

Weisz's maternal grandfather was Alexander Teich, a Jewish activist who had been a secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students.

Her older sister, Rachel Weisz, is an Academy Award-winning actress.

Weisz received an MA in Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art and a BA in Graphic and Media Design at London College of Printing.

She specialises in the Camera Obscura and adapts the technique to turn entire rooms into cameras, across Europe.

She has described herself (with respect to her artistic activity) as an architectural detective.

Editor with Rizzoli International Publications:

1972

Anna Alexandra "Minnie" Weisz (born December 1972) is an English photographer and visual artist.

She specialises in the Camera Obscura and adapts the technique to turn entire rooms into cameras.

Weisz was born in London.