Charlotte Weber Ditzler
Artist & Illustrator


I found the following 1906 article with an intereview with Charlotte Weber Ditzler.   In her illustrations of 1904 and 1905, she is credited as Charlotte Weber, indicating that she was married in late 1905 or early 1906.   I have yet to verify Hugh W. Ditzler's middle name.

Excerpt from The Advance, Volume 51

1906
 "Women as Illustrators"

 

Charlotte Weber-Ditzler, at present illustrating Carl Schurz’s Memoirs in McClure’s Magazine, is an artist who has never had to fight any of the obstacles raised by poverty. She is what every critic can see in her work, the product of generations of easy and refined surroundings, and her art is the result of years of the most careful European training.  However, she has had that lion in her path which confronts every talented girl of means – tradition and conventional timidity –but she has found her work a far more effective balm for personal troubles than the so-called social pleasure she has given up for its sake.

 
Finds Subjects in the Daily Procession

 Like all true artists, Mrs. Ditzler tries her hand at many subjects long enough to make a name for herself.  Her best efforts are found in the interpretation of scenes of faces passed carelessly by the many in the daily city rush.  She has no liking for the Gibson type, and always returns manuscripts that call for good-looking people with pretty clothes.  Mrs. Ditzler is the wife of the painter, Hugh White Ditzler, and lives most of the time in one of New Jersey’s quiet country towns.  She advises young women who wish to illustrate to take a thorough course of drawing and if they find they have no special talent, then to give up all thought of being artists.

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