Paula Modersohn-Becker
Overview
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism
Expressionism
Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas...
. In a brief career, cut short by an embolism
Embolism
In medicine, an embolism is the event of lodging of an embolus into a narrow capillary vessel of an arterial bed which causes a blockage in a distant part of the body.Embolization is...
at the age of 31, she created a number of groundbreaking images of great intensity.
Paula Becker was born and grew up in Dresden-Friedrichstadt
Friedrichstadt (Dresden)
Friedrichstadt is a neighborhood in central Dresden, Germany. A factory district in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it is known as the home of the founders of the artistic association known as Die Brücke.- History :...
. She was the third child of seven children in her family. Her father who was the son of a Russian university professor, was employed with the German railway.
Quotations
Our German art is bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.
I am to express..the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.
I want to give colours intoxication,fullness,excitement,power by trying to forget Impressionism.