[1][2] Her husband Dr. Joseph Marcus (1886-1961) was a senior government official in Breslau and Zionist organizer.

[2][3][4] The couple likely met through the hiking group and youth movement "Blau Weiss" in Breslau.

[3] She spent 1925 in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere and in the studio of André Lhote.

[1] In 1932, an Austrian-Jewish journal printed an article that described her as most famous for her work for children's books, in which she represented the struggle for a child to understand the world in balanced compositions and harmonies of color.

She often painted subjects of mothers and children, bewildered and lonely women in hostile environments, new immigrants and transit camps.