[1] She was the first woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

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.

She made friends with the Swedish painter, Jeanna Bauck, and took several study trips to Italy with her.

[1] Four years later, Wegmann 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).