20 Works, December 26th. is Bertha Wegmann's day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #255

Bertha Wegmann

Girl selling congratulatory letter

Oil on canvas

44.5 x 29.5 cm

Private collection

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.

Bertha Wegmann

French harvest workers working in the field

Oil on canvas

35×52 cm. 

Private collection

Bertha Wegmann

Turning the hay

Oil on canvas laid on board

38×48 cm

The Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen , Denmark

Hay can be raked into rows as it is cut, then turned periodically to dry, particularly if a modern swather is used. Or, especially with older equipment or methods, the hay is cut and allowed to lie spread out in the field until it is dry, then raked into rows for processing into bales afterwards. During the drying period, which can take several days, the process is usually sped up by turning the cut hay over with a hay rake or spreading it out with a tedder. If it rains while the hay is drying, turning the windrow can also allow it to dry faster. More on Turning the hay

Bertha Wegmann  (1847–1926)

A woman with a potato sack, Écouen, France, c. 1889

Oil on canvas laid on cardboard

Height: 71 cm (27.9 in); Width: 40 cm (15.7 in)

Private collection

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.

Bertha Wegmann (Danish, 1847–1926)

Despair

Oil on canvas

15 3/8 x 20 ½ in. (39 x 52 cm.)

Private collection

Alongside Jenna Bauck (1840-1926), with whom she shared a studio, Wegmann lived in Paris from 1880-83. This picture is reminiscent of the bohemian, marginalised existence encountered in Montmartre. In a domestic interior, a scene of high drama is enacted: the woman’s crumpled shirt articulates her torment. Female artists tended to concentrate on domestic scenes but rarely have they been painted with such emotive empathy. More on this painting

Bertha_Wegmann

Pondering the scriptures

Oil on canvas

I have no further description, at this time

Bertha Wegmann, Danish, born 1847, dead 1926

Woman in Black

Oil on canvas

51,5 x 41,5 cm

Nationalmuseum

This woman in profile, dressed in black in front of a patterned curtain, recalls one of the most famous pictures of the period: Whistler’s Mother , painted by James Abbott McNeill Whistler in 1871, exhibited in London and Paris, and popularised through prints. 

Bertha Wegmann (Danish painter) 1847 - 1926

A Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress, ca. 1895-96

Oil on canvas

121 x 94 cm. (47.64 x 37.01 in.)

Private collection

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.

Bertha Wegmann

Tender Moments

Oil on canvas

Private collection

Bertha Wegmann (Danish, 1847-1926)

New friends, c. 1875

Oil on canvas

33½ x 40¼ in. (82.7 x 102.3 cm.)

Private collection

She made friends with the Swedish painter, Jeanna Bauck, and took several study trips to Italy with her. In 1881, they moved to Paris where Wegmann exhibited at several salons and received an "honorable mention".

Bertha Wegmann

Hildegard Thorell, the Artist, c. 1880

Oil on canvas

(h x b) 27,5 x 22 cm

Nationalmuseum, Sweden

Hildegard Katarina Thorell, née Bergendal, 22 May 1850 – 2 February 1930, was a Swedish painter. She studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1876 to 1879. She became an agré at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in 1883 and was apprenticed to Bertha Wegmann. Later she travelled to Paris, where she studied with Léon Bonnat and Jean-Léon Gérôme. More on Hildegard Katarina

Bertha Wegmann  (1847–1926)

Portrait of the painter Jeanna Bauck, c. 1881

Oil on canvas

Height: 106 cm (41.7 in); Width: 85 cm (33.4 in)

Nationalmuseum, Sweden

Jeanna Bauck meets the viewer’s gaze, in a portrait that conveys a strong sense of her presence. She is shown as a professional woman, of value in her own right. Bertha Wegmann combines the free, independent female ideal of the period with elegant middle-class femininity. The artist Bauck has her professional attributes by her side: brushes, palette and painting rags. She holds a book, symbolising her position as an intellectual. Behind her, through the window, we can make out the rooftops of Paris. More on this painting

Jeanna Bauck was a Swedish-German painter known for her landscape and portrait paintings, and her career as an educator, as well as her friendships with Bertha Wegmann and Paula Modersohn-Becker. More on Jeanna Bauck

Jeanna Bauck (1840 - 1926)

Bertha Wegmann Painting a Portrait, c. late 1870s

Oil on canvas

Height: 1,000 mm (39.37 in); Width: 1,100 mm (43.30 in)

Nationalmuseum, Sweden

In the 1860s, Jeanna Bauck moved to Munich to study and work. Among her pursuits, she ran a school of painting for women. Here, she has portrayed Bertha Wegmann at her easel. The studio, which has a window that provides natural sidelight, was in the house where they both lived. The rest of the room is fairly dark and full of interior details and artist materials. Wegmann later became one of Denmark's most celebrated portrait painters. Bauck was active as a portrait and landscape painter. More on this painting

Bertha Wegmann  (1847–1926)

Portrait of the artist Marie Triepcke, c. 1885

Oil on canvas

Height: 120.0 cm; Width: 110.0 cm

Hirschsprungs museum

Marie Triepcke sat as a model for Wegmann down by the moat at what is today the lake in Tivoli. The work had stretched across six months, and with tall trees, water lilies, ducks and limited public access, it must have been an idyllic place – reminiscent of the banks of the Seine just outside Paris!

Triepcke herself began as a student of Carl Thomsen for half a year, before she switched to Bertha Wegmann's art school, where she studied for two winters from 1883–1885. It is during this period that Wegmann painted the two portraits of Marie. 

After studying with Wegmann for a couple of years, she became one of the founders of the Free School of Art’s course for women, also known as 'The Little School of Art', in the mid-1880s, which was one of the forerunners of the department for women set up by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1888 after long battles between the different parties for and against the idea. More on this painting

Bertha Wegmann

The artist Augusta Dohlmann at her drawing table

Oil on canvas

33.5 × 46 cm

Private collection

Augusta Dohlmann was a Danish painter. She was known for her flower painting.

Dohlmann was born in Frederiksberg on 9 May 1847.[1] In 1878 she traveled to Paris to study French and painting. She returned to Denmark in 1880 when she exhibited at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, where she would exhibit annually. 

Dohlmann was active in the formation of the Art Academy's Art School for Women in Copenhagen. In 1901 she became the first female member of the Board of the Kunstnerforeningen. More on Augusta Dohlmann

Bertha Wegmann  (1847–1926) 

Two friends drinking tea in the artist's studio, c. 1885

Oil on canvas

Height: 133 cm (52.3 in); Width: 189 cm (74.4 in)

Private collection

The next year, she returned to Copenhagen, where she was already well-known from works she had been exhibiting at the Charlottenborg Palace since 1873. A portrait of her sister was awarded the Thorvaldsen Medal in 1883 (See below).

Wegmann, Bertha

Mrs Anna Seekamp, the Artist's Sister, c. 1882

Oil on canvas

109 x 100,5 x - cm.

Museum: Statens Museum for Kunst, 

Four years later, she became the first woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy. From that year through 1907, she was a member of the board for the "Tegne- og Kunstindustriskolen for Kvinder" (Drawing and Art Industrial School for Women).

Bertha Wegmann

Joie de vivre, c. 1922

Oil on canvas

137 x 93 cm

Private collection

Bertha Wegmann

Nude with her back turned

Oil on mahogany panel

54×35 cm

Private collection

She continued to exhibit widely and represented Denmark at several world's fairs, including the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. She died suddenly while at work in her studio. More on Bertha Wegmann

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