Career
Born in Germany, Bothe moved to Boston, Massachusetts, ca.1880s. 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"). And the National Academy of Design (1884-1885).
She established a reputation as a painter ("a new and remarkably vital talent") Bothe taught art at Wellesley College, 1882-1890.
