Her name at birth was Alice Blum, she was born on 14 March 1916 in Vienna, which at the time was part of Austria-Hungary.
[3][1] Her mother was Friederike (née Grossman) and her father was Ludwig Blum.
[1] At age 12, she took classes at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, with Franz Cižek.
[2] On March 12, 1938, the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany happened.
[5] She died of cancer on October 20, 2000, in Washington, D.C.[1] She left her art estate of more than 300 works to the Republic of Austria.