Latest posts tagged with #ModersohnBecker on Bluesky
Le #MuseumWiesbaden met en lumière l'histoire de sa collection d'art moderne, soit plus d'un siècle de dons et de legs malgré le drame de l'art dégénéré. Des acquisitions présentées, on retiendra celles de #Jawlensky #SchmidtRottluff #Pechstein et #ModersohnBecker. A voir !
Painted when German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker was about 21, soon after her studies in Berlin and first visits to the Worpswede artists’ colony, this small gouache work already shows her refusal to idealize herself. Her frontal pose echoes academic portrait rules, yet the blunt contours, thinly painted skin, and dark, indeterminate backdrop point toward the Expressionist styles that would define her later work. Her very close-up self-portrait fills the frame from the base of the neck to the top of the head. At the center is a young white woman with an elongated oval face, straight nose, and wide brown eyes that look directly at us. Her skin is pale, modeled with blue-grey shadows along cheeks, nose, and chin so the face seems to glow against the dark background. Reddish-brown hair is brushed back and loosely gathered, parted by a vertical streak of light paint at the middle of her head. Her small, closed mouth is softly outlined in muted plum, neither smiling nor frowning. Behind her a mottled field of olive and brown brushstrokes suggests foliage or shadow without a clear setting, letting the steady, searching gaze dominate the image. Shown without jewelry, costume, or props, she tests the idea of a modern woman artist in 1897 whose authority rests in her gaze and hand. Now in the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen, the first museum devoted to a woman painter, the image introduces an oeuvre that, in barely a decade, helped reimagine how women and children could appear in modern art. Modersohn-Becker helped pioneer early Expressionism and modern self-portraiture by women. Painting in Worpswede and Paris, she showed everyday women, children, and herself with radical honesty, influencing later modernists even though full recognition came only long after her early death on November 20, 1907, at the age of 31, just days after giving birth to her daughter Mathilde Modersohn (often called “Tille”).
“Selbstbildnis (Self-portrait), 1897” by Paula Modersohn-Becker (German) - Gouache on paper / 1897 - Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum (Bremen, Germany) #WomenInArt #PaulaModersohnBecker #ModersohnBecker #artText #art #BlueskyArt #SelfPortrait #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #PaulaModersohn-Becker
... habe nicht mehr das Gefühl, in meiner Kunst von irgend jemand abhängig zu sein. 1899
Clara #Westhoff-Rilke *21.11.1878 Bremen – 9.3.1954 Fischerhude; Bildhauerin, Malerin; mit Paula #ModersohnBecker* in Worpswede & Paris
Die Ehe ist einsamer als Einsamkeit.
#WomensArt
