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Margaret Leiteritz, (born 1907), was a
Germany|German painter.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, Leiteritz produced
her 'painted diagrams', 
which drew heavily from the  scientific articles
and books in her care (she was a professional
Librarian before becoming a painter). 

Many of her works were strongly influenced by
chemical engineering, and especially the field's
graph of a function|graphs which depicted physical
properties of substances.   Leiteritz's paintings
typically reworked a mundane graph using large
expanses of color and a bold abstract theme, into
a dynamic painting.
Other works are reminiscent of a Bunsen burner
flame, or a Agarose gel electrophoresis|DNA gel.

One of her most famous paintings, "Crossing at the
Left Border" (1966; oil on linen) appeared on the
cover of the catalogue for an art exhibition in
Chicago in 1969.  This painting is known to have
been inspired by a specific graph appearing in an
otherwise unremarkable paper of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineering Journal.

Her work has much in common with that of Klee.

==External link==

http://www.infoverlag.de/leiteritz.htm