Augusta Dohlmann

Henriette Augusta Johanne Dohlmann, known as Augusta Dohlmann, was a Danish painter born in Frederiksberg on 9 May 1847 and died in Skotterup on 22 June 1914. She is remembered mainly for her flower paintings, a genre she pursued throughout her career.

The daughter of a timber merchant, she received drawing and painting lessons from an early age. In 1878 she went to Paris to study French and painting, working there with Tony Robert-Fleury, Gustave Courtois, Raphaël Collin, Alfred Stevens and Jean-Paul Laurens, and attending the Académie Julien. After a brief stay in Florence and Rome, she returned to Denmark in 1880 and exhibited at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, where she would show her work every year.

Her activity also extended to teaching and organisations. She helped form the women's art school linked to the Art Academy in Copenhagen, which opened in 1888, and in 1901 became the first woman on the board of the Kunstnerforeningen. In the mid-1890s she taught drawing and painting in Gothersgade. She exhibited at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and at several international exhibitions, some of them at the Paris Salon.