Nicoline Weywadt
Nicoline Weywadt | |
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Died | February 20, 1921 | (aged 73)
Known for | photography |
Nicoline Marie Elise Weywadt (1848–1921) was the first woman in Iceland to have studied and practised photography. On returning from her studies in
Biography
Born on 5 February 1848 in Djúpivogur, Nicoline Marie Elise Weywadt was the second oldest of the 14 children of Niels Peter Emil Weywadt (1814–1883), a director with Ørum & Wulff, and his wife Sophie Brochdorf (1826–1902). In 1880, the family moved to the house Niels Weywadt had built at Teigarhorn.[3]
Nicoline Weywadt studied photography and mineralogy in Copenhagen, graduating in 1872 and becoming the first Icelandic woman to master photography. On her return to Iceland, she established a photographic studio in Djúpivogur, the first in eastern Iceland.[4] After her father died in 1883, she took over the Teigarhorn premises and added a photography workshop. All in all, Nicoline worked in photography for some 30 years.[4] She trained her niece, Hansína Regína Björnsdóttir (1884–1973), as her assistant.[1][5] (Hansina graduated in photography in Copenhagen in 1902.) In 1888, Nicoline returned to Copenhagen to gain experience in dry-plate photography. In about 1903, she left Hansina in charge of the studio.[3]
Nicoline Weywadt died on 20 February 1921.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Teigarhorn in Djupavogshreppur". Teigarhorn. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ISBN 978-3-575-42526-3.
- ^ a b Guðmundur Lúther Hafsteinsson a (27 February 2015). "Teigarhorn við Berufjörð" (PDF) (in Icelandic). National Museum of Iceland. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ a b c "Myndagallerí" (in Icelandic). Héraðsskjalasafn Austfirðinga. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ISBN 978-0-226-31328-3.