After studying in Merano, Menton, Geneva and Berlin she continued her training in Paris with Edmond Yon.

In this period she was strongly influenced, in her landscape painting, by the Barbizon School and by Alfred Sisley.

In 1894 she built a house in Ahrenshoop, where she was close to the founders of the artists' colony, including Paul Müller-Kaempff, Friedrich Wachenhusen, Anna Gerresheim and Fritz Grebe.

She was a member of the Association of Berlin Woman Artists and the General German Arts Cooperative.

In 1895 she married Henry Edler von Paepke, the lord of the manor of Quassel near Lübtheen in Mecklenburg.