The daughter of German architect and local superintendent of construction (1784–1854), Esch grew up in
Brno, at the time part of
Austria-Hungary. She became a student of several recognized painters of the era, such as
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and
Joseph von Führich, and spent time in cities like
Paris,
Munich and
Düsseldorf. Following the death of her father in 1854, she permanently moved to Vienna, where she built upon her already existing reputation as a skilled landscape and genre painter by carrying out her profession, with most of her works going into private ownership. She focused primarily on scenes of the German and Hungarian popular culture, but also produced some
still lifes. Her paintings were exhibited in Vienna, Munich,
Dresden,
Prague and Brno. ==Selected works==