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NEW YORK — When Paula Modersohn-Becker left her husband and stepdaughter to move to Paris in the spring of 1906, she was ablaze with ambition. Unbeknownst to her, she was also nearing the end of what ...

In her first American museum retrospective, Paula Modersohn-Becker looks bracingly modern. Installation view of “Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I Am Me” at the Neue Galerie in New York, in an ...

Today German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) is famous worldwide. But during her lifetime, her unconventional painting irked her contemporaries as she radically broke taboos, anticipating ...

Half-Length Portrait of a Peasant, His Head Resting on His Right Hand, oil tempera on cardboard, c. 1903. The artist created the work at an art colony in Germany. ©Museumsbund Nordfriesland, Husum / ...

Paula Modersohn-Becker, “Reclining Female Nude” (1905–06), oil on canvas, 28 x 44 1/2 in (all images courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, New York) Paula Modersohn-Becker, “Kneeling Girl and Child in Front ...

Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German painter best known for her expressionistic self-portraits, scenes of children with their mothers, and moody landscapes. Painted in rich hues and rough brushstrokes ...

Neue Galerie curatorial director Janis Staggs discusses Paula Modersohn-Becker's last portrait. The full-size work by Paula Modersohn-Becker, Selbstbildnis mit zwei Blumen in der erhobenen linken Hand ...

Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German painter best known for her expressionistic self-portraits, scenes of children with their mothers, and moody landscapes. Painted in rich hues and rough brushstrokes ...

Paula Modersohn-Becker’s Self-Portrait in Front of Paris Buildings (1900) shows a dark face dimly projected against a brilliantly lighted wall. It’s a tiny, prettily colored painting reminiscent of ...

The trope of the neglected female artist may have completed its journey from urgent historical necessity to cliché last fall when the Cape Ann Museum attempted to reposition Josephine Nivison Hopper ...

Neue Galerie stages a poignant homage to the German modernist painter’s boundless creativity, tragically extinguished by her death in 1907 at age 31. Mary Tompkins Lewis ...