# Ida Bothe

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**Ida Bothe** was an artist and educator in the 19th century. Born in Germany, Bothe moved to [Boston](/source/Boston), [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts), ca.1880s.[1] She exhibited work in the [Boston Art Club](/source/Boston_Art_Club), 1881 (a black-and-white "study head ... as masculine as, or even more so than, anything of a similar kind shown by the sterner sex");[2] and the [National Academy of Design](/source/National_Academy_of_Design) (1884–1885).[3][4] She established a reputation as a painter ("a new and remarkably vital talent.")[5] Bothe taught art at [Wellesley College](/source/Wellesley_College) from 1882 until 1890.[6] In 1890 she married Baron Ehrenfried von Voss[6] and returned to Germany, to "Cunnersdorf, bei [Hirschberg](/source/Jelenia_G%C3%B3ra), [Schlesien](/source/Silesia)."[7]

## References

1. Boston Almanac. 1885, 1888

1. S. R. Koehler. Boston Art Club. Twenty-Fourth Exhibition. American Art Review, Vol. 2, No. 9 (Jul., 1881)

1. National Academy Notes including the Complete Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition. National Academy of Design, No. 4 (1884).

1. Exhibition of the National Academy of Design.The Decorator and Furnisher, Vol. 6, No. 2 (May, 1885), p. 47.

1. Women Who Paint. The Art Union, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Oct., 1885).

1. Boston Traveller, April 15, 1890

1. Wellesley College record, 1875–1912; a general catalogue of officers and students

## Further reading

- An art teacher's romance. Boston Traveller, April 15; reprinted in New York Times, April 20, 1890.

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