She became a well-known engraver, working for the Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut in Paris as of 1964.
Her father, a known supporter of the Vichy regime, died in 1943.
[1] On 21 December 1952 she married the poet Paul Celan, whom she had met in November 1951.
As a graphic artist, she illustrated the works of a number of well-known poets.
She died in Paris, and was buried in the same grave as her husband, at Cimetière parisien de Thiais.