Paula Deppe

She began her artistic education at the Akademischer Malerschule in Plzeň, an art school exclusively for women, under the direction of the Czech painter, Jindřich Duchoslav Krajíček [cs].

She also supplemented her formal lessons with classes at a private academy operated by Julius Seyler.

The latter came about after her intimate friend, the landscape painter Gerta Springer [de], introduced her to Maria Caspar-Filser and her husband, Karl Caspar, two of the Secession's founders.

After World War I, when her father's leather factory was given to the new government of Czechoslovakia, the family moved to Seestetten, near Passau, where he opened a sawmill.

She died on 4 October 1922 of blood poisoning at a clinic in Passau, following an operation to treat abdominal tuberculosis.