page_title: Bertha Beckmann
section_title: Assessment
hierarchical_section_title: Bertha Beckmann / Assessment
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Blick in das Atelier Wehnert-Beckmann in Leipzig (Daguerreotypie)
context_page_description: Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann 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.
context_section_description: Her work combines a human approach with high levels of technical and artistic quality. Specializing in portraits, her most impressive works are those of children. 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.
caption: A photograph by Wehnert-Beckmann of her studio c. 1850
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