Anna Maria Kupper was born in 1947 in Rothenburg, Switzerland. She attended technical school at Luzern and Zurich. In 1969 she received a scholarship for a nine-month study at the Freie Academy, Hague. After the Forma viva symposium in Kostanjevica na Krki she had also been invited to symposium in St. Margarethen, Austria. She lives and works in Luzern, Switzerland.