At Letterpress PLAY, we’ve named all of our presses after famous women in art history. These important women—some of them whose lives date back to the 1700s—greatly inspire the work we do. To celebrate their legacies, we want to share a little about each of them.

Frederika Dicker was born in 1898 to a poor Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. Her mother passed away when Friedl was just a toddler. Like many Jews who were killed by the Nazis, not a lot of information is available on Friedl’s childhood, but her story becomes clearer upon entering the iconic art school Weimar Bauhaus.