Ida Bothe was an artist and educator in the 19th century. Born in Germany, Bothe moved to Boston, Massachusetts, ca.1880s.Boston Almanac. 1885, 1888 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");S. R. Koehler. Boston Art Club. Twenty-Fourth Exhibition. American Art Review, Vol. 2, No. 9 (Jul., 1881) and the National Academy of Design (1884–1885).National Academy Notes including the Complete Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition. National Academy of Design, No. 4 (1884).Exhibition of the National Academy of Design.The Decorator and Furnisher, Vol. 6, No. 2 (May, 1885), p. 47. She established a reputation as a painter ("a new and remarkably vital talent.")Women Who Paint. The Art Union, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Oct., 1885). Bothe taught art at Wellesley College from 1882 until 1890.Boston Traveller, April 15, 1890 In 1890 she married Baron Ehrenfried von Voss and returned to Germany, to "Cunnersdorf, bei Hirschberg, Schlesien."Wellesley College record, 1875–1912; a general catalogue of officers and students

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