Her photographs of the pre-World War II period are a significant record of the society and culture of Weimar Germany, and they serve as an important example of early photojournalism.
In the mid-to-late 1920s, Ursula Wolff spent two years in Berlin, Vienna, and Hamburg working as an apprentice in photographers' studios and honing her talents.
In 1928 – at the age of 22 – she established her own studio, Foto Wolff Lichtbildwerkstatt, and began working as a free-lance photographer.
[1] She spent her life in Chicago and was killed August 4, 1977 in an automobile accident.
[3] She lived in Chicago, where she worked as a medical photographer at the Michael Reese Hospital from 1937 to 1942.