Bertha Wegmann Painting a Portrait

It was acquired by the National Museum, in Stockholm, in 1930 from Ms. Toni Agnes Möller-Wegmann as a gift.

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.

[3] After a few years in Paris, Jeanna Bauck returned to Munich and started a school for women painters.

[5] The female world was perceived as static and unchanging, in comparison with male-dominated modern life, which happens in public.