[1] Born in Düsseldorf, Baur-Nütten grew up as the daughter of the Royal Prussian officer Karl (Charles) Eugen Maria Heinrich Nütten (b.
D., had acquired as a summer residence the Villa Elsa, built from 1884 onwards, a stately home at Bergstraße 16 with a garden designed by Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe [de].
On 3 June 1909, their daughter Ruth was born in Düsseldorf, who later made a name for herself as a ballet mistress in Kleve under her married name "Countess von Bullion".
In the 1920s, she resumed her "innate profession" as a painter and created landscapes, architectural views, sacred paintings (such as Stations of the Cross) and portraits.
In Kleve, where she had settled after the death of her parents and with the exception of the years 1940 to 1943, when she stayed in Rome and Anticoli Corrado,[4] lived and worked, however, she was perceived less as an artist than as a dazzling personality with a resolute demeanour, which earned her the nickname "Generalin" there.