Background
Greta Jehly was born in Bludenz, Vorarlberg, the daughter of the painter Jakob Jehly and Wanda von Pöllnitz.
Greta Jehly was born in Bludenz, Vorarlberg, the daughter of the painter Jakob Jehly and Wanda von Pöllnitz.
She was a half-sister of the writer Norman Douglas and her maternal great-grandfather was General James Ochoncar Forbes (1765–1843), 17th Lord Forbes. She documented in her diaries their life in the bohemian quarter Schwabing. They had a son, Olaf Andreas Gulbransson, who became a noted church architect.
The Gulbranssons divorced in 1923.
Due to financial difficulties Greta moved back to Vorarlberg at the end of the 1920s. From 1930 to 1934 she lived at Schloss Weißenberg in Batschuns.