Hulda Marie Bentzen

Hulda Marie Bentzen (1858–1930) was an early professional female Norwegian photographer who established studios in Bergen and Voss.

After learning photography under Max Behrends (1839–1903), she opened a business in Bergen in 1886.

The firm appears to have been taken over by Justus Lockwood in the early 1900s when she opened a business in Voss.

[2] Bentzen was one of several women who established early photographic studios in Norway.

The Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography are disparaging about many of these but they pick out several of note including Marie Høeg in Horten, Louise Abel in Christiania, Louise Wold in Holmestrand, Augusta Solberg in Lillehammer and Bentzen and Agnes Nyblin in Bergen.

Hulda Marie Bentzen, around 1890.
Hulda and her brother Christian as children. Photo taken by Marie Magdalene Bull .
A 1907 postcard of Ulvik by Bentzen
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