 Notably, Blumann recounted sitting for a portrait for artist Max Liebermann and also described his teaching methods although no verifiable evidence is available to confirm Liebermann as her tutor.After this, Blumann taught in various schools in Germany from 1920 to 1923, when she married Arnold Blumann.She fled Nazi Germany with her husband in 1934, arriving at the port of Fremantle, Western Australia on the passenger liner "Ormonde" on January 4, 1938.