Artist Grete (Greta) Wolf Krakauer was born in 1890 in Moravia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  As an infant she moved with her family to Vienna.  At a young age Grete began studying at the Art Academy and at Kunstgewerbeschule ("school of arts and crafts").  Among her teachers where Otto Friedrich, Rudolf Jettmar and Hans Tichy.  After graduating Grete traveled to Munich where she worked with Albert Weisgerber and Paul Renner.  In Stuttgart she worked closely with Adolf Hoelzel and Johannes Itten, later one of the central figures of the Bauhaus.

At the age of 27 Grete was already an established artist in Vienna.  She painted abstracts and portraits of Viennese men and women of her cultural cycle.  She drew a movement o...