Irma Wehgartner studied classical archaeology, prehistory, protohistory and ancient history at Würzburg and Munich.
Maltechniken, Werkstätten, Formen, Verwendung (Attic White-ground Ceramics.
Painting technique, Workshops, Forms, Use) which remains the fundamental work on this theme, to this day.
After this she worked on Volume 51, Würzburg 3 of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland in which the Etruscan pottery of Martin von Wagner Museum was published.
Wehgartner mainly researched ancient pottery and Greek vase painting, but also glasswork and the plastic arts of antiquity.