Born before World War I in Hamburg, Germany, she came to the U.S. in 1923 and the family settled in Chicago, Illinois.  She continued her art studies at the Chicago and American Academies of Art and began a career in fashion design and decorative arts.  She met and married painter Charles Reinike and the couple moved to his home town of New Orleans, where she taught at the Reinike Academy of Arts. A mural, portrait, landscape and still life painter, she drew much inspiration from th (showing 500 of 863 characters).