[1] While her father's business was still flourishing she was enrolled at the newly established so-called "Lady Artists' Academy" ("Malerinnenschule") in Karlsruhe, where she was taught by Friedrich Fehr and Ludwig Schmid-Reutte.

She returned home to Bremen to launch herself as a freelance artist, setting up a studio at her widowed mother's house in the Feldstraße (loosely "Field Street").

Despite the acknowledged excellence of her draftsmanship and her good social contacts, she struggled financially at a time when the economy was undergoing a lengthy period of major structural dislocation.

[1] Meanwhile, she remained in close contact with other local artists such as August Tolkien and Toni Elster with whom, in 1924, she staged a "collective" exhibition at the Bremen Kunsthalle art museum.

Günter Busch, director of the museum, paid tribute to her "perfect pitch" ("absolutes Gehör") in terms of colour and commended her "artistic sense of responsibility ... in respect of her critical self-appraisal".