[1] Emingerová was born on 17 August 1858 in Prague, in what is now the Czech Republic.

She studied in Prague at Emil Reynièr's School of Drawing in 1892.

[2] She went on to study in Dresden, Germany and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich where her teachers included Maximilian Dasio.

She went on to support herself by creating portraits (mainly in pastel) of members of the upper class in Austria-Hungary, Bohemia, Germany, Moravia, Poland, and Russia.

One of her siblings, Kateřina Emingerová, was noted musician and writer.