Description
How and why did Paula Modersohn-Becker succeed in creating iconic pictures which continue to move and fascinate viewers today? The remarkable radicalism of her attitude and her works, her stylistic modernity and almost photographic lingering on details can be seen in succinct series and pictorial subjects showing her individual treatment of colour and form and her style. The breadth of her opulently presented oeuvre, created within a period of not quite a single decade, extends from self-portraits, early nudes, portraits, pictures of children and representations of mother and child and peasants to still lifes and landscapes which impress through their timeless directness.
This comprehensive publication pays particular attention to the progressive nature of Modersohn's works, in which this early representative of the avant-garde defied all social and artistic conventions.
About the Author
Ingrid Pfeiffer is an art historian and curator of the renowned exhibition house Schirn Kunsthalle in Germany. Her publications include Fantastic Women, Esprit Montmartre, Splendor and Misery in the Weimar Republic, Richard Gerstl, and En Passant.
Book Information
ISBN 9783777437231
Author Ingrid Pfeiffer
Format Hardback
Page Count 220
Imprint Hirmer Verlag
Publisher Hirmer Verlag
Weight(grams) 1280g