Bertha Enwald

Bertha Katarina Enwald (10 April 1871 – 1 January 1957) was a Finnish architect, inventor, artist, and drawing teacher. She was the fourth Finnish woman to graduate as an architect.

Early life and education Enwald was born on 10 April 1871 in the municipality of Parikkala, Finland to the doctor Kurt Enwald and Johanna Augusta Walle. From 1890, she studied at the Department of Architecture at the Polytechnic College in Helsinki. In 1887, Enwald graduated from the Swedish girls' school in Savonlinna.

From 1900 to 1901, she worked in the office of architect Reinhold Guleke in Tartu, Estonia but returned to Saint Petersburg to the architectural office of Frithiof Mieritz in 1902. Intense work in St. Petersburg on the one hand and the builders' attitude towards a woman as an architect made Enwald think of a career change. Enwald enrolled in the teacher department of Helsinki School of Crafts graduating as drawing and craft teacher in 1904. After graduation, she moved to Pori, western Finland, and worked as a drawing teacher in Pori Lyceum until retirement.

Enwald also excelled as an inventor. In 1927 she developed and patented a device for perspective drawing, Finnish patent number 11404.

Museum of Finnish Architecture has numerous drawings related to Enwald's architectural studies.

Bertha Enwald died on 1 January 1957 in Huittinen, Finland.