A bronze bust of Mia Hesse stands among flowering shrubs in the garden of the Mia and Hermann Hesse House in Gaienhofen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, beside an explanatory information panel. Mia Hesse, née Maria Bernoulli (1868–1963), came from a wealthy Basel family of scholars as the daughter of notary Friedrich Bernoulli and was a pioneer of photography in Switzerland. In 1904, she married Hermann Hesse, and the couple moved from Basel to the Höri peninsula on Lake Constance. Mia Hesse gave up her career as a photographer.