Bertha Wiegandt

Bertha Bernhardine Wiegandt (born February 18, 1889 in Munich , † December 29, 1977 in Bremen ) was a German painter.

biography

Bertha Wiegandt was the daughter of the painter Bernhard Wiegandt and his wife Bertha Gertrude. The painter Dorothea (called Else) Wiegandt was her sister. The family moved to Bremen in 1890. Bertha Wiegandt attended the secondary school for girls and a lyceum in Bremen.

The two sisters received their drawing and painting training from their father. Bertha studied art in order to become qualified to teach. She gave painting lessons and taught at a school for the deaf from 1907 to 1909. In 1911 she passed the exam as a drawing teacher.

At first she earned her money from painting lessons that she gave and lessons at her former lyceum and, from 1914, also at elementary schools in Bremen. She expanded her training to become a handicraft teacher. During the First World War she received a temporary contract as a teacher and in 1919 a job at the Lyceum of the Little Helle . In 1926 she was permanently employed as a technical teacher at secondary schools in Bremen.

As a painter, she created portraits, watercolors of flowers and landscapes such as the river lock near Bremen . In 1954 she had her first public exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen . Further exhibitions followed in 1973, 1984, 1985 and 2007.

She was buried in the Riensberg cemetery .

Literature, sources

• Hannelore Cyrus: Wiegandt, Bertha Bernhardine. In: Women's story (s). Bremen Women's Museum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .