RESIDES: New York

CITIZEN: United States

BIOGRAPHY:
1927: Born in Vienna, Austria

1938: emigration with family to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1941-44: art study.   Baccalaureate in Fine Arts in 1944 at the University of Buenos Aires. Also attended the Fernando Fader School of Decorative Arts, and studied with the Jean Josse Studio

1942-50: private instruction with Ignazio Kaufman in drawings.

1945-53: active in the Argentine film industry. Ms. Steiner was involved in the production of over 50 film documentaries

1940s: During this time, involved with emerging Arte Madí movement with Gyula Kosice and others

1953 to present day:

• Traveled the world many times throughout her career, as a photojournalist
  
• Beginning in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then in Europe and North America, Ms. Steiner photographed her way around the world.
  
• Ms. Steiner contributed to such US publications as Life, Time, Newsweek and the New York Times, as a freelance photojournalist.
  
• She also worked on numerous television productions for NBC and Public Television (PBS)
  
• Ms. Steiner represents Argentina in the United States as an Academician in Arts and Sciences
  
• Keystone Press Agency, O'Cruzeiro, Brazil - staff photographer
  
• Die Woche, Switzerland - various projects
  

1999: Vienna, Austria: Galerie Johannes Faber exhibits her photographs

1999: Austrian National Library houses Ms. Steiner's sketches

2000: Leica Gallery, hosted a full retrospective of her work

2004: Ms. Steiner's photographic archive gifted to the Austrian National Library

Ongoing: Ms. Steiner's project: Children of America, comprising images from all countries in South, Central and North America

Lisl Steiner by Ricky Silbersher