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Paula Modersohn-Becker (8 February 1876 – 20 November 1907) [1] 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.
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 modern...
Paula Modersohn-Becker made landscapes, still lifes, and domestic scenes, but it was portraits of women and girls that most fully occupied her artistic imagination.
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.
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.
Paula Modersohn-Becker, ca. 1904. Paula Modersohn-Becker, geborene Minna Hermine Paula Becker, (* 8. Februar 1876 in Dresden-Friedrichstadt; † 20. November 1907 in Worpswede) war eine deutsche Malerin und eine der bedeutendsten Vertreterinnen des frühen Expressionismus.
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Paula Modersohn-Becker (8 February 1876 – 30 November 1907) was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. Her brief career was cut short when she died from postpartum embolism at the age of 31. She is becoming recognized as the first female painter to paint nude self-portraits.
Jan 14, 2022 · See five works to know by Paula Modersohn-Becker, who has been called the first modern woman artist.
Paula Modersohn-Becker’s pictures of children, mothers and children, and self-portraits as nudes, which she did in Paris in 1906, are among her major works. In them, the influence of Paul Gauguin...
During her short life, Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) radically charted her own path, exploring the intimate and singular aspects of the feminine experience in a bold style that foreshadowed Expressionism.
