Married in 1803 to General Karl Gottfried von Helvig, she moved to Stockholm in 1804 where she established a salon and became a known personality in the capital's cultural life. She was elected to the Academy of arts in 1804 and took part in several of its exhibitions between 1804 and 1810. She returned to Germany in 1810, but spent the years from 1814–1816 in Sweden, where she resided in Uppsala as a part of the circle around the salonist Malla Silfverstolpe.