A Life Rooted in Hamburg Ebba Tesdorpf was born into a Hanseatic family in Hamburg, Germany, on 23 January 1851. Her lineage was deeply connected to the history of the region, with ancestors who had served as mayors of Lübeck. The daughter of Hans Peter Friedrich Tesdorpf and Antoinette Karoline Mohrmann, she grew up surrounded by the traditions of a merchant and political class. It was in these familiar streets that she first began to develop her talent for drawing. Her early training was shaped by local instructors such as Mohrhagen Bernhard and Johann Theobald Riefesell, who taught drawing…