Happy birthday, Bertha Wegmann 💐🎨⁠ Austrian-born Bertha Wegmann was born 175 years ago on this day. She was one of the first professional female artists in Denmark. Both internationally and at home, she became one of the leading portrait painters of the time, depicting the economic and cultural elite.⁠ ⁠ Early on, she experienced gender stereotyping in regards to what defined the right kind of artist: “Well, Father wanted me to learn how to paint, so he sent me to the history painter F.C. Lund! A terrible place to send me [...] God have mercy, he treated me poorly! "Fool! Idiot! Mindless individual!” were just a few of the words constantly hailing down on me. "Ha, should such a person be a painter! No, she should be a cleaning woman! Cleaning woman, she seems better suited for that!” ⁠ ⁠ But a few years later, thanks to the support of Copenhagen patrons, Wegmann was able to become a student at the French art school “Ecolé de Dessin et Peinture pour Femmes”. ⁠ ⁠ #bruunrasmussen #berthawegmann #kvindeligekunstnere #femalartists #dkkunst #danishartist