The painter, watercolorist and graphic artist Elsa Bertha Fischer Ginsburg came from a Jewish family. 1915 - 1918 she attended the painting school Frau Löwenstein in Berlin and then the Hamburg School of Arts and Crafts with Ahlers-Hestermann. From 1920 to 1922 she completed her artistic training at the Hans Hofmann School in Munich. In 1923 Elsa Bertha Ginsburg married the expressionist painter Heinrich Fischer. In 1933 she was expelled from the Aschaffenburg Artists' Association. Through the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden, founded after the seizure of power and tolerated by the Nazis until 1941, she participated in the exhibition "Kunst-Handwerk im Berliner Theater". In 1935 Fischer-Ginsburg was banned from working, and in 1936 her husband was banned as well. Fischer-Ginsburg did not resume her artistic work until 1946. Among other things, she exhibited together with the neo-Saxon painter Christian Schad.