Artist

Otto Boetticher

Portrait of Otto Boetticher
Portrait of Otto Boetticher

German, 1811–1886

Otto Boetticher was a German Realism painter. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art, most of them oil paintings.

Otto Botticher (19 May 1811 – 1 July 1886) was a German-born painter and lithographer best known for his 1863 rendering of a baseball game at a prisoner of war camp during the American Civil War. That illustration, Union Prisoners at Salisbury, NC, was based on Botticher's experience as a prisoner at the camp in 1862.

Works by Otto Boetticher

Collections represented

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