Ida Bothe was an artist and educator in the 19th century. Born in Germany, Bothe moved to Boston, Massachusetts, ca.1880s. [1] She exhibited work in the 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 (1884-1885). [3] [4] She established a reputation as a painter ("a new and remarkably vital talent.") [5] Bothe taught art at Wellesley College, 1882-1890. [6] In 1890 she married Baron Ehrenfried von Voss [6] and returned to Germany, to "Cunnersdorf, bei Hirschberg, Schlesien." [7]
