[2][3][4][5] Else Oppler-Legband was one of the representatives of the so-called Lebensreform, 'life reform' of Fashion in the 1910s and 1920s, centered in Berlin.

From 1913 at the latest, she is documented as a member of the Deutscher Werkbund (DWB), 'German Association of Craftsmen'.

[6] After the Nazi seizure of power in March 1933, the Jew Oppler-Legband was forced to flee.

She first went to the Netherlands, then to South Tyrol in fascist Italy and finally to Sweden.

After the end of World War II, she returned in 1952 to Germany and lived in Überlingen on Lake Constance until her death on 7 December 1965.