Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926) ~ The Artist Jeanna Bauck, 1881 ✿

Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926) ~ The Artist Jeanna Bauck, 1881

Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926) was a Danish portrait painter of German ancestry. She was the first woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. At the age of five, her family moved to Copenhagen, where her father became a merchant. He was an art lover and spent much of his spare time painting. She showed an interest in drawing at an early age, but received no formal education until she was nineteen, when she began taking lessons from Frederik Ferdinand Helsted, Heinrich Buntzen and Frederik Christian Lund.