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Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German Expressionist painter and draftswoman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is noted for the many self-portraits, including nudes. She is considered one of the most important representatives of early expressionism, producing more than 700 paintings and over 1000 drawings during her active painting life. She is recognized both as the first known woman pa…
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culture · German expressionist painter and draftswoman (1876–1907) · painter · printmaker · draftsperson · artist · also Paula Modersohn-Becker, Paula Modersohn- Becker, Paula Becker, Paula Modersohn Becker, Paula Becker-Modersohn, Paula Modershohn-Becker
Born 8 February 1876 · Died 20 November 1907 · Q234370
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2018· 4 entries
Artnet: Google Doodle Honors German Modernist Paula Modersohn-Becker on Her 142nd Birthday
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Yahoo: Google Celebrates Paula Modersohn-Becker, the 'First Modern Woman Artist"
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Irish Sun: Paula Modersohn-Becker celebrated by Google Doodle – here’s why the German painter is being marked on her 142nd birthday
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Time: 5 Things to Know About Pioneering Artist Paula Modersohn-Becker
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2017· 2 entries
Artnet: MoMA and Neue Galerie Acquire a Masterpiece by Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Expressionist Pioneer With a Tragic Life Story
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Hyperallergic: A New Biography of Paula Modersohn-Becker Reveals an Artist Committed to Painting Women
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2016· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Paula Modersohn-Becker's Simplified Forms and Complicated Life
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2003· 1 entry
Heinz and Betty Thies bought the then-rundown house and had it restored in time for the 100th anniversary of the artist's death
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1988· 1 entry
A stamp with the portrait of Paula Modersohn-Becker was issued in the series Women in German history by the German post-office authority Deutsche Bundespost
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1937· 1 entry
"70 of her paintings were purged from German museums, either destroyed or exhibited as 'degenerate art
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1935· 1 entry
But Roselius ignored this until Hitler denounced his entire Böttcherstraße in September 1936
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1927· 1 entry
Businessman Ludwig Roselius opened the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen
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1917· 1 entry
The Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover organized a large exhibition of Becker's works and published a selection of her letters and diaries, which told her life, feelings and friendships, as well as the thoughts that shaped h
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1908· 1 entry
On the first anniversary of her death, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote the renowned poem "Requiem for a Friend" in Modersohn-Becker's memory
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1907· 2 entries
Died 1907-11-20.
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Becker returned to her husband in Worpswede, despite periodic correspondence that indicated her desire for independence
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1906· 2 entries
“Now I have left Otto Modersohn and am standing between my old life and my new life. I wonder what the new one will be like. And I wonder what will become of me in my new life? Now whatever must be, will be.”
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Modersohn-Becker left Worpswede, as well as her husband, Otto, to pursue an artistic career in Paris
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1905· 1 entry
And 1906, she lived in her studio on Avenue du Maine, where she created, among other things, portraits of Clara (Rilke-)Westhoff and Clara's husband Rainer Maria Rilke
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1900· 1 entry
Began to study anatomy at the Académie Colarossi in the Latin Quarter
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1888· 1 entry
The family moved from Dresden to Bremen, where Carl Becker had obtained a position on the building board of the Prussian Railway Administration
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1876· 1 entry
Born 1876-02-08.
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1861· 1 entry
Oskar Becker, Carl's brother, in an unsuccessful assassination attempt, had shot King Wilhelm of Prussia in the neck
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