The Artist as Fruit
Mary Ann Caws: Paula Modersohn-Becker, 8 August 2013
Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist
by Diane Radycki.
Yale, 246 pp., £40,0 300 18530 8 Show More
by Diane Radycki.
Yale, 246 pp., £40,
“... The story of Paula Modersohn-Becker is, according to Diane Radycki, ‘the missing piece in the history of 20th-century modernism’. This is a large claim, and the basis for it is Modersohn-Becker’s series of nude self-portraits, the first such works by a woman. Paula Becker grew up in Dresden until she was 12, when her family moved to the smaller, wealthy city of Bremen, where her father worked as a building and works inspector on the newly nationalised railway ... ”