Bertha Wegmann

Bertha Wegmann
Bertha Wegmann
(photograph by Georg Emil Hansen, 1891)
Born(1847-12-16)16 December 1847
Soglio, Switzerland
Died22 February 1926(1926-02-22) (aged 79)
Copenhagen
EducationFrederik Ferdinand Helsted, Heinrich Buntzen and Frederik Christian Lund
AwardsThorvaldsen Medal
Ingenio et Arti medal

Bertha Wegmann (1847–1926) was a Danish portrait painter of Swiss ancestry. She was the first woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

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