She attended the School of Arts and Crafts for two years and then became a pupil of the Swiss-German painter Paul Klee from 1904 to 1906.
[2][3] On the advice of Paul Klee, she entered the Ranson Academy from 1906 to 1911, where she met the artists Lucien Simon, Félix Vallotton, Maurice Denis and Édouard Vuillard.
From 1915 to 1931, they ran a school of painting together in Bern, where Serge Brignoni, Max Böhlen and Ernst Braker taught.
During the war, she helped in the refugee camps and campaigned for the protection of Bern's old town and for the preservation of the environment around Lake Brienz.
[6][7] Through her graphic works and oil paintings, the artist expressed her interest in the Impressionist, Fauvist and Nabis movements.