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1846 Soglio, Bregaglia, Switzerland - 1926 Copenhagen, Denmark. Known for: Portrait, interior scene, still life and figure painting, realism and impressionism.
Bertha Wegmann (16 December 1847, Soglio, Switzerland – 22 February 1926, Copenhagen) was a Danish portrait painter of German ancestry. At the age of five, she moved with her family to Copenhagen,... Read full biography
Bertha Wegmann (16 December 1847, Soglio, Switzerland – 22 February 1926, Copenhagen) was a Danish portrait painter of German ancestry. At the age of five, she moved with her family to Copenhagen, where her father became a merchant. He was an art lover and spent much of his spare time painting. She... Read full biography
Bertha Wegmann (16 December 1847, Soglio, Switzerland – 22 February 1926, Copenhagen) was a Danish portrait painter of German ancestry. At the age of five, she moved with her family 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 [da] and... Read full biography
Bertha Wegmann (16 December 1847, Soglio, Switzerland – 22 February 1926, Copenhagen) was a Danish portrait painter of German ancestry. At the age of five, she moved with her family 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 [da] and Frederik Christian Lund. Two years later, with the support of her parents, she moved to Munich and lived there until 1881. At first, she studied with the historical painter Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger, later with the genre painter Eduard... Read full biography
Bertha Wegmann (16 December 1847, Soglio, Switzerland – 22 February 1926, Copenhagen) was a Danish portrait painter of German ancestry. At the age of five, she moved with her family 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 [da] and Frederik Christian Lund. Two years later, with the support of her parents, she moved to Munich and lived there until 1881. At first, she studied with the historical painter Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger, later with the genre painter Eduard Kurzbauer, but she was not satisfied with learning in a studio atmosphere and decided to study directly from nature. She made friends with... Read full biography
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Bertha Wegmann (16 December 1847, Soglio, Switzerland – 22 February 1926, Copenhagen) was a Danish portrait painter of German ancestry.
At the age of five, she moved with her family 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 [da] and Frederik Christian Lund.
Two years later, with the support of her parents, she moved to Munich and lived there until 1881. At first, she studied with the historical painter Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger, later with the genre painter Edu...But wait, there's more...
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