Astrid Kirchherr

Astrid Kirchherr

Astrid Kirchherr ([ˈastʁɪt ˈkɪʁçhɛʁ]; 20 May 1938 – 12 May 2020) was a German photographer and artist known for her association with the Beatles (along with her friends Klaus Voormann and Jürgen Vollmer) and her photographs of the band's original members – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best – during their early days in Hamburg. Kirchherr met artist Stuart Sutcliffe in the Kaiserkeller bar in Hamburg in 1960, where Sutcliffe was playing bass with the Beatles, and was later engaged to him, before his death in 1962. Although Kirchherr shot very few photographs after 1967, her early work has been exhibited in Hamburg, Bremen, London, Liverpool, New York City, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Vienna, and at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Astrid Kirchherr has received more than 1,106,227 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Astrid Kirchherr is the 44th most popular photographer (down from 25th in 2019), the 2,465th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,462nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Photographer.