Paula Modersohn-Becker
1876–1907 · 4 works
Paula Modersohn-Becker painted people around her in Worpswede, a village in northern Germany, and repeatedly traveled to Paris to study art. Her subjects included older women, children, herself, and arrangements of ordinary objects. She gave these familiar subjects a directness that did not depend on idealized beauty. Drawings, prints, and still lifes offer different ways into that search: a profile can be built from a firm silhouette, while a vase and flowers become an arrangement of weight, color, and pattern.
4 works · 1894–1902
Compare the silhouette in Woman in Profile with the shapes of the green vase and flowers. Which edges feel firm, and which dissolve?
Alexej von Jawlensky
Murnau, 1910
Egon Schiele
Head of a Woman, 1908
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Poster for Die Brücke, 1907
