"It has taken me some time to discover the identity of Emma Mayer. One reason is because there are no records of her as a printmaker on the www. No pictures, no auction sales, nothing but a handful of her paintings. Well actually, there was one, shown in this Blog even, but it was not attributed to her because the signature wasn't recognized. The colors of the Danish flag (var. "Union Jack", or "Danish Star") and the name of one of the earliest cultivated Dahlia varieties could have been a clever clue leading to Denmark. Some say 1882 others claim 1911. Emma had picked a bunch somewhere and saw their decorative potential in a print. It’s great to find territory that has not been trodden on before; revealing an obscured and unexpected printmaker is sometimes the reward. A second reason for not being able to identify her earlier is the coincidence that there’s another contemporary artist-painter, by the same name. Both women have been mixed up before I’ve noticed, even in official writings. The other, Emmy Meyer ,was born 1866 in Frankfurt, joined the Worpswede Artist Colony, was a friend of Otto Ubbelohde and died in Worpswede in 1938. This Emmy was taught and educated artistically in Berlins Zeichen und Mahlschule in the mid 1890s, the school that for many years was run by Else Schmiedeberg. But my Emma (Emilie Leonore) Meyer was born in Flensburg as third child of Fritz Meyer, a judge in Denmark's Supreme Court and Maria Frederikke Dalberg. Three more children were born, the last one, Jennie Sophie, in 1866. She was to become a famous porcelain decorator and painter with the Royal Danish Porcelain Factory and exhibited worldwide. Emma also followed trainings with painters Emilie Mundt and Marie Luplau who were leading a painting school for women within the Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The history of these two women, lovers, great painters and feminists “avant la lettre” and their painting school is well worth reading... Emma is buried in the same cemetery in Frederiksberg as her father and the two women teachers, and to this day is a very much loved and appreciated Danish painter. In October 1908 I found her name among the exhibitors in Hamburg showing works from the collections of the Kopenhagen Kunstnerforeningen along with etchings by contemporary German masters: Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, Siegfried Berndt, Emil Nolde, Käthe Kollwitz, Carl Moll, Walter Leistikow and many if not all of the other great names of the period. (http://gerrie-thefriendlyghost.blogspot.nl/2013/03/emma-meyer-mayer-danish-printmaker.html)