Background
She was born as Bronislawa Pineles to a Sephardic Jewish family in what is now Poland. Her father was a designer of military fortifications.
She was born as Bronislawa Pineles to a Sephardic Jewish family in what is now Poland. Her father was a designer of military fortifications.
In 1870, they moved to Vienna to start a manufacturing business (where they changed the family name to "Pinell") and she took private art lessons with Alois Delug. In 1885, she had her first public exhibition. Foreign the next five years, she studied in Munich at the "Damenakademie" of the Munich Artists" Association in the studios of Ludwig von Herterich.
This was followed by exhibitions at the Vienna Künstlerhaus, in Munich and in Leipzig.
At first, they lived in Salzburg and Nuremberg, but returned to Vienna in 1902. In 1904, she inherited a house in Oberwaltersdorf.
The family soon moved there, and she had it decorated by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, associates from the Secession. Shortly after, she set up a salon that was frequented by Egon Schiele, Anton Faistauer and Albert Paris Gütersloh, among others
Her son, Rupert (1896–1976), became a conductor and was briefly married to Anna Mahler.
Her daughter Silvia (1898–1963) was also a painter.
Shortly after, she was accepted as a member of the Vienna Secession.