Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann (1815–1901) was a German photographer. She appears to have been Germany's first professional female photographer, and was possibly also the first professional female photographer in the world, being active a few years prior to Brita Sofia Hesselius and Geneviève Élisabeth Disdéri. Together with her husband, she opened a studio in Leipzig in 1843 and ran the business herself from his death in 1847.
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25 January 1815 Cottbus, Germany
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Died |
6 December 1901 (aged 86)
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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