Studied art history, medieval history and Romance literature at Technische Universität Dresden and the University of Bologna (doctorate 2006); research assistant in the early modern history research project "Institutionelle Ordnungsarrangements öffentlicher Räume" (TU Dresden); since 2007 provenance research at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, currently in the Kupferstich-Kabinett.
Alice Friedländer was the only child of the Vienna ear specialist and university professor Adam Politzer and his wife Julie, née Rosenfeld.