Paula Bonte (1840-1902) was a German landscape painter.
Biography
Bonte was born on 15 April 1840 in
Magdeburg
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Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archbishopric of Mag ...
, Germany.
She studied with
and
Otto von Kameke in
Berlin
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.
She
exhibited her work at the
Woman's Building
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at the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition
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in Chicago, Illinois.
Bonte was a friend of fellow landscape painter
Marie von Keudell, with whom she shared a studio.
Bonte died on 21 September 1902 in Berlin.
References
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1840 births
1902 deaths
19th-century German painters
19th-century German women painters