1844 - Vienna - 1926
Flower and landscape painter. From 1868 to 1873 she worked as a pianist before she subsequently turned to painting. She first studied with Melchior Fritsch and August Schaeffer, then the Austrian mood impressionist Emil Jakob Schindler became her teacher. Schindler took her, Maria Egner and Carl Moll on study trips from 1882 onwards and had a major influence on her artistic development. She received the "Mention honorable" in Paris in 1888 and in London in 1891, the Small Golden State Medal in Vienna in 1897, the Bavarian Ludwig Medal in 1891 and the Chicago Medal in 1893. In 1900 she exhibited at the Paris World's Fair. She was president of the Association of Austrian Women Writers and Artists in Vienna.
Lit.: H. Fuchs, Die österreichischen Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts, vol. 4, Vienna, 1973, K 136