Hedwig Burkhardt was a Swiss painter that studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich and then later at the world-renowned Academy Julian in Paris.

At the time of Burkhardt’s studies, the Academy Julian had become a vibrant hub for leading modern artists and it’s possible that he may have attended at the same time as Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) and Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940).