She was born Frania Feigin in Warsaw in October 1896.[1][3] She came from a family of fabric merchants.[3] She studied in a Polish-language Gymnasium.[1] Because she showed an interest in art from a young age, she was sent to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.[3] In 1921 she went to Vienna to study in an art school there, and met Fritz Carp, a poet who was living there, and they were married.[1][3] Together, in 1928 they left Austria for France.[3] She enrolled in an art school there and entered into collaboration with a fellow artist named Benjamin Raphaël Secunda.[3][1]
While working as an artist in Paris, she did participate in some group exhibitions there and in Warsaw, where a local museum purchased some of her works.[3][1] During World War II, she was no longer able to sell paintings and worked as a painting retoucher and seamstress to make ends meet.[1][3] Due to her Jewish background, a fellow artist offered to hide her and her husband, but she declined.[1] They were arrested by authorities in the middle of the night on 18 July 1943 along with several of their neighbors.[1] They were deported to a concentration camp; her place and time of death are not documented.[3][5][6]
