Born: 1815, January 25 - Cottbus Died: 1901, 6 December Gender: Female Active: Germany / US
Her collaborations with Wilhelm Horn in Prague may place her as the first professional woman photographer in the world. In 1845 she married the Leipzig photographer Eduard Wehnert but he died only two years later. From 1849 to 1851 she was in New York with studios at 62 White Street and later at 385 Broadway. She then returned to her previous studio at Burgstrasse 8 in Leipzig.
Genealogy of Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann
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C. Grünewald, 1858, Portrait of Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (1815-1901), German photographer, Oil on canvas, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/63258
Unidentified photographer, 1870 (ca), Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann in the photographic studio at Elsterstraße 38, Photograph, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/86016
