Julia Virginia Laengsdorff (née Scheuermann, wid. Fuld), born and raised in Frankfurt, probably began her artistic training in Munich. There, she took her first sculpture classes with Carl Ludwig Sand from 1896, to then, from 1899, become the pupil in turns of Gustav Eberlin in Berlin and Ottilie W. Roederstein at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt. Furthermore, she visited the Kunstakademie in Kassel. In 1900, she exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, from 1904, regularly at the Frankfurt Art Association. In 1912, she moved to Paris for further training and lived in Switzerland during the First World War. After her first husband’s death in 1920, she moved back to Frankfurt where she married the trained publishing assistant Richard Laengsdorff. Her artistic work remains completely lost to this day.
She was also active as an author, poet, feature writer and multi-lingual translator, she also advocated for the visibility of women, especially in poetry and arts. She regularly devoted her magazine articles to them, like for instance her friend Roederstein. In 1907, she published the anthology “Frauenlyrik unserer Zeit” (Female poetry of our time). Her German translation of Marie Bashkirtseff’s diaries (Russian painter, 1910) attracted a lot of attention. She was also actively engaged at the German Female Writers’ Association, the Berlin and the Frankfurt Women’s Club, the Schopenhauer Society as well as the Frankfurter GEDOK as a member.