Caroline Hammer

After the death of her mother in 1849, the family moved to Wyk on the Frisian island of Föhr where her brother, Otto, had settled.

[1] They lived in the Villa Idyle which Otto had built for his father and the three sisters who joined him.

It was here that Caroline Hammer opened her photographic studio, with customers from the fashionable resort Wyk had become popular since Christian VIII visited the island in 1842.

They were outdoor photographs of people on the beach and around the island, often including the fishing boats and the fishermen.

In 1881, she became the first female member of the Dansk Fotografisk Forening, the Danish photographers' association.