revolutions of 1848 brought large numbers of Germans, known as Forty-Eighters, to Cincinnati where a German community already existed. She began her art studies at the McMichen School of Design and later attended evening classes at the Cincinnati Art Academy, studying portraiture with Frank Duveneck and sculpture with Louis Rebisso. After her marriage, she travelled with her husband to Paris where she studied sculpture, first enrolled at the Académie Colarossi, where she worked with Jean Antoine Injalbert, and then at the Académie Rodin under Auguste Rodin, Antoine Bourdelle and Jules Desbois.
