Legacy
Lehmann helped establish the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, where there is a hall named for her.
The Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara was also named in her honor.
The Lotte Lehmann Collection at the UCSB Library's Special Collections contains Lehmann's recordings, papers, photos, etc.
A collection of manuscripts, photos and recordings called the Gary Hickling Collection on Lotte Lehmann is housed at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound at Stanford University.
The bulk of Lehmann's private recordings are held at the Miller Nichols Library Marr Sound Archives at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Lehmann's friend Hertha Schuch willed her large collection (now in 18 boxes) of Lehmann recordings, correspondence, photos etc. to the Österreichischen TheaterMusem, Wien. (The Austrian Theater Museum).
The Lotte Lehmann Foundation was established in 1995 to preserve and perpetuate Lotte Lehmann's legacy and at the same time to bring art song into the lives of as many people as possible. It ceased activity in 2011. In 2011 the Lotte Lehmann League developed a website in her honor: www.lottelehmannleague.org
Lotte Lehmann had no children. She was step-mother to her husband Otto Krause's children.
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