Bertha Wegmann Painting a Portrait

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Bertha Wegmann Painting a Portrait is a 19th-century painting by

on canvas, the painting measures 100 by 110 centimetres (39 by 43 in).

It is part of a series created by the two women which depicted one another, helping to break the norm of painters as male.[2]

In 1880, Jeanna Bauck traveled to Paris, along with Bertha Wegmann, with whom she shared an art-studio. Bauck was admitted to the

the same year. In a number of portraits of each other, Bauck and Wegman contributed to changing the view of women artists and broke the male-dominated norms of the artistic community.^[3] After a few years in Paris, Jeanna Bauck returned to Munich and started a school for women painters.^[4]

In the 1800s, a line was often drawn between the private and public life, with public life considered a male domain, while female activity was reserved for private life.^[5] The female world was perceived as static and unchanging, in comparison with male-dominated modern life, which happens in public. The traditional image of a woman was considered unchangeable, like nature.^[5] At this time, women who lived in the bigger cities were restricted from public life.^[6]

Nordic female artists often painted themselves or others within their studios. In their portraits, the art studio symbolizes the never-ending opportunities of the art studio, but also the clear border created by the studio.^[7] In contrast, they often chose not to depict the world outside.

Books

• Gynning, Margareta (1999). Det ambivalenta perspektivet: Eva Bonnier och Hanna Hirsch-Pauli i 1880-talets konstliv (avhandling). Stockholm: Bonnier. Libris 8345213.
  ISBN 91-0-056898-8
• Gynning, Margareta, red (2006). Konstnärspar: kring sekelskiftet 1900. Nationalmusei utställningskatalog. Stockholm: Nationalmuseum. Libris 10100457.
  ISBN 91-7100-742-3
• Svanholm, Lise. Bertha Wegmann. De drogo till Paris. Nordiska konstnärinnor på 1880-talet. Utställningskatalog Liljevalchs. Stockholm 1988.

References

External links

• Hirschsprungska samlingen, Köpenhamn
• Målningen i Nationalmuseums föremålsdatabas