Nicoline Weywadt
Nicoline Marie Elise Weywadt (1848–1921) was the first woman in Iceland to have studied and practised photography. On returning from her studies in Copenhagen, she managed the Teigarhorn farmhouse built by her father in Djúpavogshreppur. She built her own photographic atelier where she worked for many years. • Illustration — The Teigarhorn house photographed by Nicoline Weywadt
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Nicoline Weywadt
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- Name
- Nicoline Weywadt
- Born
- 5 February 1848
- Birthplace
- Djúpivogur
- Died
- 20 February 1921
- Known for
- photography
- Full name
- Nicoline Marie Elise Weywadt.
- Nationality
- Iceland.
- Occupation
- photographer.
- Languages
- Icelandic.
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Nicoline Marie Elise Weywadt (1848–1921) was the first woman in Iceland to have studied and practised photography. On returning from her studies in Copenhagen, she managed the Teigarhorn farmhouse built by her father in Djúpavogshreppur. She built her own photographic atelier where she worked for many years. • Illustration — The Teigarhorn house photographed by Nicoline Weywadt
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• Name — Nicoline Weywadt • Born — 5 February 1848 • Birthplace — Djúpivogur • Died — 20 February 1921 • Known for — photography
Biography
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Born on 5 February 1848 in Djúpivogur, Nicoline Marie Elise Weywadt was the second oldest of the 14 children of Niels Peter Emil Weywadt (1814–1883), a director with Ørum & Wulff, and his wife Sophie Brochdorf (1826–1902). In 1880, the family moved to the house Niels Weywadt had built at Teigarhorn. Nicoline Weywadt studied photography and mineralogy in Copenhagen, graduating in 1872 and becoming the first Icelandic woman to master photography. On her return to Iceland, she established a photographic studio in Djúpivogur, the first in eastern Iceland. After her father died in 1883, she took over the Teigarhorn premises and added a photography workshop. All in all, Nicoline worked in photography for some 30 years. She trained her niece, Hansína Regína Björnsdóttir (1884–1973), as her assistant. (Hansina graduated in photography in Copenhagen in 1902.) In 1888, Nicoline returned to Copenhagen to gain experience in dry-plate photography. In about 1903, she left Hansina in charge of the studio. Nicoline Weywadt died on 20 February 1921.
Der Teigarhorn-Hof auf dem Nicoline Weywadt lebte, befindet sich auf einer der bekanntesten Zeolith -Fundstellen der Welt. Seit 1975 ist der Hof teilweise als Naturdenkmal, 2013 das gesamte Gebiet zum Naturschutzgebiet erklärt. Seit 1992 ist das Haus Teil der Sammlung historischer Gebäude des Isländischen Nationalmuseums
Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and if you want send me a message. or (rufre@lenz-nenning.at)
Der Teigarhorn-Hof auf dem Nicoline Weywadt lebte, befindet sich auf einer der bekanntesten Zeolith -Fundstellen der Welt. Seit 1975 ist der Hof teilweise als Naturdenkmal, 2013 das gesamte Gebiet zum Naturschutzgebiet erklärt. Seit 1992 ist das Haus Teil der Sammlung historischer Gebäude des Isländischen Nationalmuseums
Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author and if you want send me a message. or (rufre@lenz-nenning.at)
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1848
Nicoline Weywadt was born on 5 February 1848.
1921
Nicoline Weywadt died on 20 February 1921.
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- 1.Guðmundur Lúther Hafsteinsson. Teigarhorn við Berufjörð. 2015-02-27.
- 2.John Hannavy: Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Routledge, 2013, ISBN 1135873267, S. 735 ( ).
- 3.Myndagallerí. Héraðsskjalasafn Austfirðinga.
- 4.Gisli Palsson. The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan. 2016. 978-0-226-31328-3.
- 5.Hansína Regína Björnsdóttir war eine Urenkelin von Hans Jonatan, dem mutmaßlich ersten afrikanischen Einwanderer auf Island.
- 6.Myndasöfn - Nicoline Weywadt (1848-1921). thjodminjasafn.is. 2004-12-07.
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Nicoline Weywadt was recorded at birth as Nicoline Marie Elise Weywadt. The authorities additionally record the heading Nicoline Marie Elise Weywadt. Her recorded language was Icelandic.
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