| 1893 |
Born on June 28, in New York as daughter of a French father and a German mother |
| 1902 - 1914 |
Studied Music, lived in Paris, Rome and London, where she also gave her first piano concert |
| 1914 |
Visiting Berlin during the First World War, she enrolled at the Academy of Art Berlin |
| 1922 - 1926 |
Studied painting with different artists, among others Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant at the Académie Moderne in Paris |
| 1927 |
Attended the preliminary course directed by László Moholy-Nagy at the Bauhaus in Dessau, becoming close friends with Lucia and László Moholy-Nagy, and met artists such as Wassily Kandinsky or Paul Klee |
| 1928 |
Abandoned painting to open her own professional freelance photography studio in Paris. Her experimental self-dramatizations and portraits of friends using mirrors, were first published and commented by Moholy-Nagy |
| 1930 - 1931 |
Took part in the international exhibition entitled “Das Lichtbild” (The Photograph) in Munich in 1930, and the following year she presented her images of bobbins at the “Foreign Advertising Photography” exhibition in New York |
| 1934 |
Started her series of artist’s portraits |
| 1939 - 1944 |
During World War II she turned again to painting, because the Nazi-Regime did not tolerate her avant-garde-style photography |
| 1976 |
She focused on a new group of collage works, while her most famous photographs kept being reprinted throughout the 1970s |
| 1982 |
Passed away on July 24, in Laboissière-en-Thelle |