... A nice self-portrait of Paula Modersohn-Becker (1906), the rebellious female artist...self-portrait was also one of her most painted artworks... she is known for being the first woman to ever paint a nude self-portrait... she lived a short life but that didn't stop her from creating hundreds of pieces of art... in her life, she completed more than 700 paintings and 1,000 drawings and prints... one of the most important representatives of early expressionism... when her work was exhibited for the first time it was adversely criticized... with great "Polar Lights" special postmarkđ... Thanks a lot Dustin!ăœ(ă
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Paula Modersohn-Becker German, 1876–1907 born in Dresden. Her brief career was cut short when she died from embolism at the age of 31.
She enrolled in the Women’s School of the Berlin Academy, later she moved to Worpswede where she set up a studio and joined in a movement with the ideal of "back to nature".
The Worpswede school followed a kind of "lyric naturalism", she painted the same subject matter at first, but using flat forms, giving her figures remote or (children especially) plangent expressions, ignoring conventional perspectives, choosing color for their expressive qualities.
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(Issued 07-04-2022)
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