Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926) was a Danish painter of extraordinary skill and dedication. Because she was busy helping with the household and her siblings, she did not begin her formal art studies until she was nineteen. At age twenty-one she went to Munich to study. There she made friends with Swedish painter Jeanna Bauck, and the two began painting together, taking several painting trips to Italy, before moving together to Paris in 1881. The two friends painted each other. While ambitious and hard-working, she also had a calm and caring nature. Wegmann was a complex person who blazed trails, broke stereotypes and cracked so many of the glass ceilings of her time. #danishart #wegmann #oilpaintings #portraits #queenofportraiture
