Marie Kinnberg (1806–30 March 1858) was a pioneering Swedish photographer and painter. In 1851, she learnt how to operate the daguerreotype process and the following year opened a studio in Gothenburg. [1] [2]
Active as a portrait painter, Marie Kinnberg was a student of Bernhard Bendixen and Adolf Meyer, two photographers from Germany, who introduced the then new photographic technique with pictures on paper in Sweden, and gave lessons in this technique during their stay in Gothenburg in the summer of 1851. Marie Kinnberg thus belonged to the pioneers of the new photographic technique in Sweden when she opened her own professional studio in Gothenburg on 8 May 1852. Her study did not last many years, but she was a pioneer both as one of the first to use the new photographic art in Sweden, as well as one of the first women of her profession alongside Brita Sofia Hesselius.
Henriette Theodora Markovitch, known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet.
Eva Watson-Schütze was an American photographer who was one of the founding members of the Photo-Secession.
Hanna Hirsch, later Hanna Pauli, was a Swedish painter; primarily of genre scenes and portraits.
In Denmark, photography has developed from strong participation and interest in the very beginnings of the art in 1839 to the success of a considerable number of Danes in the world of photography today.
Hilda Sjölin (1835–1915) was a Swedish photographer, one of the first known professional woman pioneer photographers in her country.
The participation of women in photography goes back to the very origins of the process. Several of the earliest women photographers, most of whom were from Britain or France, were married to male pioneers or had close relationships with their families. It was above all in northern Europe that women first entered the business of photography, opening studios in Denmark, France, Germany, and Sweden from the 1840s, while it was in Britain that women from well-to-do families developed photography as an art in the late 1850s. Not until the 1890s, did the first studios run by women open in New York City.
Aurora Valeria Albertina Valerius, known as Bertha, was a Swedish photographer and painter.
Anna Sofia Palm de Rosa was a Swedish artist and landscape painter. In the 1890s she became one of Sweden's most popular painters with her watercolours of steamers and sailing ships and scenes of Stockholm. She also painted a memorable picture of a game of cards in Skagen's Brøndums Hotel while she spent a summer with the Skagen Painters. At the age of 36, Anna Palm left Sweden for good, spending the rest of her life in the south of Italy, where she married an infantry officer.
Valentin Wolfenstein was a Swedish-American photographer who worked both in Stockholm and Los Angeles, California. He was one of the first photographers to use flash-lamps for photography.
Brita Sofia Hesselius (1801–1866) was a Swedish daguerreotype photographer. She was likely the first professional female photographer of her country.
Events from the year 1858 in Sweden
These are the collective events from the 18th century of the year 1806 in Sweden.
Emma Sofia Perpetua Schenson was a Swedish photographer and painter. She was one of the earliest female professional photographers in Sweden.
Rosalie Sofie Sjöman was an early Swedish female photographer. From the mid-1860s, she became one of Stockholm's most highly regarded portrait photographers.
Wilhelmina Catharina Lagerholm (1826–1917) was a Swedish painter and an early professional female photographer. After first studying and practising painting, she turned mainly to photography in 1862, opening a studio in Örebro in central Sweden.
Janet Mann(Jessie) (20 January 1805 – 21 April 1867) was the studio assistant of the pioneering Scottish photographers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. She is "a strong candidate as the first Scottish woman photographer" and one of the first women anywhere to be involved in photography.
Daniel DeWitt Tompkins Davie, also known as D. D. T. Davie, was an American 19th-century photographer known as a pioneer of the daguerreotype in America and an innovator of photographic equipment and techniques. He was a key player in the controversy over Levi Hill's claim to have invented a process for producing color daguerreotypes.
Carolina Charlotta Mariana von Düben, commonly known as Lotten von Düben was an early Swedish amateur photographer and a pioneering reportage and documentary photographer.
This is a timeline of women in photography tracing the major contributions women have made to both the development of photography and the outstanding photographs they have created over the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.