Bertha Beckmann

[4] Wehnert-Beckmann was one of two photographers from Saxony to exhibit at the 1854 Erste Allgemeine Deutsche Industrieausstellung (First German Industrial Fair) in Munich where she displayed paper prints in addition to daguerreotypes.

Her interest in technical innovations, her use of modern advertising methods and her sense of business all contributed to her outstanding success as a photographer.

[1] While living in New York, notable subjects such as President Millard Fillmore, ambassadors, and other politicians came to her to be photographed.

These individuals included Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Franz Dominic Grassi, Karl Heine and many others.

In addition, Beckmann has been credited with some of the first architectural photographs of Leipzig (1855–1860), which documented the city and its features before some were destroyed, such as Peter's Gate (1860).