Otto Henry Rothenburgh - Artist Info

About Otto Henry Rothenburgh

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    Otto H. Rothenburgh (1893-1992)

    Born on October 29, 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a son of Henry and Margaret Rothenburgh, German immigrants. Henry was working as a "Sugar Boiler" in 1900 in Philadelphia and as a "Foreman, Sugar Refinery" in Yonkers, New York in 1910.

    Otto Rothenburgh studied at the Art Student's League and was living in Yonkers, New York, when he completed his WWI draft registration card. Otto applied for a passport in 1921 stating that he was an artist and traveling to Holland to study and visit relatives, and also traveling to study in the British Isles, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, France, and Gibraltar. This passport was later canceled. He applied for a new passport in 1925...

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