Wednesday 2 August 2017

Paula Modersohn-Becker - part 3

Paula Modersohn-Becker c1905

Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) spent most of her childhood in Bremen, Germany, and decided to become a painter at a young age. After her education at a private painting and drawing school in Berlin, she continued her studies from 1898 at the artist’s colony Worpswede with Fritz Mackensen.

The human form is very much at the centre of Modersohn-Becker’s work; children, old women, and Worpsweder peasants inspired her to undertake portraiture.

For more information on Paula Modersohn-Becker see part 1. For earlier works by Modersohn-Becker, see parts 1-2 also.

This is part 3 of a 5-part post on the works of Paula Modersohn-Becker:



1903 Five Children Sitting on the Edge of a Meadow
chalk 19.5 x 29.7 cm
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany

1903 Girl in a Birch Forest
oil on cardboard 54.2 x 39.8 cm
Museum of FIne Arts, Ghent, Belgium

1903 Girl Resting on Birch Trunk

1903 Girl with Blue and White Chain in her Hair
oil on cardboard 48 x 42 cm
Von Der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany

1903 Head of an Old Woman with Black Scarf
oil on cardboard 39 x 37.5 cm
Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen, Germany

1903 Old Peasant Woman
oil on canvas
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany

1903 Portrait of Hedwig Hagemann
charcoal 23.5 x 34.5 cm
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany

1903 Seated Peasant Woman with Child on Her Lap
oil on cardboard 61 x 49.5 cm

1903 Self-Portrait
charcoal and pastel 43.7 x 27 cm
Private Collection

1903 Woman with Straw Hat between Birches
oil on cardboard 74 x 52.5 cm
Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Germany

1903-04 Portrait of a Peasant Woman with a Hood
charcoal 19.7 x 19.7 cm

1903-04 Sitting Woman
charcoal 37.8 x 24.8 cm
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany

1903c Birch Trunks with Swinging Child
tempera on paper laid down on board 54.8 x 42 cm
 Private Collection

1903c Boy with Cat
oil on canvas 70.4 x 45.2 cm
Kunstmuseum Basel

1903c Child in a Cradle
oil on cardboard 38 x 49.2 cm
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany

1903c Children in the Sun
oil on cardboard 37 x 33 cm
Sammlung Rauert, Hamburg, Germany

1903c Head of a Peasant Woman in Profile
oil on cardboard 34 x 26 cm
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany

1903c Head of a Peasant Woman
oil on cardboard 27 x 24.8 cm
Sammlung Sander, Berlin, Germany

1903c Infant with Mother's Hand
oil on canvas 31.3 x 26.7 cm
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany

1903c Old Woman with Handkerchief
oil on cardboard 69 x 55 cm
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany

1903c Peasant Woman with Child at Breast in front of Landscape
oil on canvas 69 x 58 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany

1903c Seated Girl with Black Hat and Flower in her Hand
oil on canvas 69.8 x 44.8 cm

1903c Seated Old Peasant Woman
oil on canvas 81.8 x 65.5 cm
Kunstmuseum Basel

1903c Self-Portrait with Necklace
paper 38.5 x 25.5 cm
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany

1903c Still LIfe with Lemon, Orange and Tomato
watercolour 17.3 x 26.5 cm
Private Collection

1904 Farm-woman with Child, Rider in the Background
oil on cardboard laid down on panel 69.6 x 55.6 cm
Private Collection

1904 Girl in a Birch Wood with a Cat
canvas 96 x 81.5 cm
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany

1904 Sitting Nude Girl
oil on cardboard 32 x 26.5 cm
Private Collection

1904-05 Peasant Girl with Pink Apron
tempera on canvas 69 x 55 cm
Private Collection

1904-05 Worpsweder Peasant on a Chair
tempera on canvas 90 x 61 cm
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany

1904-05c Two Girls Sitting in a Birch Forest
tempera on canvas 31.6 x 45.8 cm
Private Collection

1904c Portrait of a Girl in Profile next to a Birch Trunk
oil on cardboard 36.8 x 37.2 cm
Ahlers Collection, Germany

1904c Three Children with Goat in Birch Forest
 tempera on wood 57 x 46 cm
Galerie Cohrs-Zirus, Worpswede, Germany

1904c Two Peasant Girls with Trumpets
charcoal 41.2 x 28 cm
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany

1905 Clara Rilke-Westhoff
52 x 36.8 cm
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany

1905 Clara Rilke-Westhoff
charcoal study 27.3 x 18.7 cm
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany

1905 Girl with Rabbit
oil on cardboard 61 x 55.5 cm
Von Der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany

1905 Seated Old Woman
etching and aquatint
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1905 Still LIfe with Milk Pudding ( Breakfast )
tempera on Cardboard 55 x 71.8 cm
Sammlung Ludwig Roselius, Bremen, Germany

1905-06 Reclining Female Nude
oil on canvas 71.5 x 113 cm

1905-06c Still LIfe, Leaf Plant and Egg Cup
tempera on canvas 31 x 37.2 cm
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany

1905c Girl at the Duck Pond
oil on cardboard 41.9 x 34.8
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany

1905c Girl in a Red Dress by a Tree Trunk
oil on canvas 56 x 58 cm
Sammlung Sander, Berlin, Germany

1905c Girl in a Red Dress emulsion ( probably oil, tempera and wax ) on composite board
Harvard Art Museums
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