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Author
Publisher
Hirmer
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
No other artist of Classical Modernism has achieved a similar mythical status to that of Paula Modersohn-Becker. At the same time, the view of her work is often distorted by clichés. This comprehensive publication pays particular attention to the progressive nature of Modersohn's works, in which this early representative of the avant-garde defied all social and artistic conventions. How and why did Paula Modersohn-Becker succeed in creating iconic...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Considered one of the most important of the early German modernists, painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was the first woman artist to challenge centuries of traditional representations of the female body in art. She was the first to paint herself nude, as well as mothers and children nude. She also creted self-portraits while she was pregnant. Modersohn-Becker painted the life she was living as a woman and artist at the threshold of modernism,...
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