Lea Grundig-Langer was born in Dresden in 1906 and comes from an Orthodox Jewish family from Galicia. In 1922 she attended the School of Applied Arts in Dresden against the will of her parents and changed shortly thereafter to the private art school of Edmund Kesting 'Der Weg-Schule für Gestlatung', followed by a few semesters at the Academy of Fine Arts, where she took lessons under Ferdinand Dorsch, Max Bauer and Otto Grussmann.

In 1929 she founded with her husband Hans Grundig the ‘Dresdner Sektion der Assoziation Revolutionärer Bildender Künstler Deutschlands‘. During the Nazi era she was banned from working and exhibiting. In 1940 she was deported to a camp in Slovakia, from which she managed to escape. ...