Bertha Worms

Brazil · 1868–1937

Anna Clémence Bertha Abraham Worms was a French-born Brazilian art professor and painter of genre scenes and portraits. == Biography == She was born in Uckange in the Moselle region of France to a Jewish family. At the age of thirteen, she began painting and enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she studied with Tony Robert-Fleury, Gustave Boulanger and Benjamin Constant. At the age of seventeen, she obtained a degree as a teacher of drawing from the Ministry of Public Instruction and taught in the communal schools. In 1892, she married Fernando Samuel Worms, a Brazilian dental surgeon.

Independent artist guide by Momentable. Biography from Wikipedia; artworks credited to the museums that hold them.