Laura Rosenfeld was the youngest daughter of Joseph Rosenfeld and Rosa Kolisch. She grew up in an assimilated family and was educated at several convent schools in Linz and Vienna.
Around 1875-1876 Laura Rosenfeld met the painter Maurycy Gottlieb. Laura and Maurycy got engaged but didn't marry each other. In the summer of 1877 the engagement was annuled. On several of Gottliebs paintings Laura Ro…