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Paula Modersohn-Becker (8 February 1876 – 20 November 1907) was a German Expressionist painter of the late 19th and early 20th century. She is noted for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits.
Paula Modersohn-Becker was the first woman artist to paint herself nude and furthermore, the first artist to paint herself nude while pregnant. Her repeated themes of moving self-portraits and portraits of women and children are well integrated within the foundations for the Feminist Art movement.
- German
- February 8, 1876
- Dresden, Germany
- November 30, 1907
Paula Modersohn-Becker (8 February 1876 – 20 November 1907) was a German Expressionist painter of the late 19th and early 20th century. She is noted for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits.
Paula Modersohn-Becker (born February 8, 1876, Dresden, Germany—died November 30, 1907, Worpswede) was a German painter who helped introduce into German art the styles of late 19th-century Post-Impressionist painters such as Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh.
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As a pioneer of modern art in Germany, Paula Modersohn-Becker played a central role in the history of 20th-century art. Educated primarily in Berlin and Worpswede, she was exposed to the...
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Jan 14, 2022 · Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1876, she died in 1907 of an embolism at age 31. Still, in that short time, she created 734 paintings, some of which have made their way into the canon, thanks to the...
This exhibition marks her first full-scale museum presentation in this country. Showing the full range of her achievement over her career, tragically cut short by a postpartum embolism, the display includes more than 50 paintings, 15 large-scale drawings, and five etchings.
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