[1][2] Her father, Johann Albert Lotz, was a master carpenter who designed and built the family home, where they lived with her mother, Margaretha and her brothers, Paul and Augustus.
[5] Lotz began an interest in art early in life, as a child she would draw farm and household animals in the dirt.
[8] The Lotz family left Franklin, and briefly migrated to Memphis, Tennessee before moving to San Jose, California.
[12][9] Lotz travelled throughout Europe and North Africa, uncommon for a single, un-chaperoned woman, and her journeys influenced her work.
[9] Lotz was living in Algiers at the outbreak of World War I, but was forced to leave by the French and returned to Tata in 1915, until her death on February 21, 1923.