1859–1937 · Switzerland
Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein, a German-Swiss painter, defied social norms to become a celebrated portraitist, exhibiting at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein (22 April 1859 – 26 November 1937) was a German-Swiss painter. She was the long-time companion of Elisabeth Winterhalter, one of the first female doctors in Germany. == Life == Roederstein was born in Zürich, Switzerland. She was the second daughter of a businessman who came from Germany to work as a representative for a Swiss textile company. She was first attracted to painting when the now-forgotten Swiss painter Eduard Pfyffer (1836–1899) ca…
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