[5][6][1][7] Ursula, who had begun drawing and painting when she was six years, was largely self-taught, and developed her colorful artistic style while she was in hiding, Her father created an interim business, selling hand-painted handkerchiefs for soldiers to send back home, and Ursula designed and painted messages and illustrations for them.
[7][5] Ursula was visiting her sister Renée in Brussels at the same time that orchestra conductor Jonathan Sternberg happened to be passing through the city.
While Jonathan conducted the Royal Flemish Opera in Antwerp, the couple lived in Brussels, where their children Tanya and Peter were born.
After living in Rochester, New York, and Atlanta, Georgia, the family settled in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania in 1971, near Philadelphia, where Jonathan worked at Temple University.
[1] As well as thousands of drawings and paintings, Ursula created "visual diaries", sketchbooks that documented her daily life in words and images.
Her first professional art exhibit was in 1962, at the Galerie Le Cheval de Verre (the Glass Horse Gallery) in Brussels.