Thursday, October 30, 2025

Bertha Wegmann 1847-1926 View from a studio in Copenhagen (has street cars!)




Bertha Wegmann (1847 1926) was a Danish painter born in Switzerland. She is known for her portraits, and she was the first woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

She went on to earn a degree of success that would be remarkable for any artist, woman or man. After studying painting in Munich, she moved to Paris in 1881 and in the same year, received honourable mention for her submission to the Salon—Europe’s most significant exhibition of contemporary art at the time. 

Wegmann went on to represent Denmark internationally, showing at the World’s Fairs in Paris in 1889 and 1900, and in Chicago in 1893.

She is considered one of the most significant painters of the Danish Realism movement. She was among a small number of women artists of the period to be recognized and respected for her work in her own day and was one of the first professional female artists in Denmark to be in fierce demand as a portrait painter.

To see her paintings online, see https://www.artnet.com/artists/bertha-wegmann

5 comments:

  1. Very interesting. Thanks

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    1. I hope you looked through her paintings on https://www.artnet.com/artists/bertha-wegmann her portraits and still lifes are incredible, and the paintings he did of paths through the woods? Very good! I love her paintings, but I only featured this one as it's the only one with a vehicle. Really, I have no reason to think that anyone reading my blog likes art nearly as much as I do, and i already feature SO much art

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    2. What that woman could do with dandelions is something else! Thank you very much.

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  2. Very enjoyable, particularly the self portraits. Great links ALL the time! :)

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