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Paula Modersohn-Becker, née le 8 février 1876 à Dresde et morte le 21 novembre 1907 à Worpswede, est une artiste peintre allemande et l’une des représentantes les plus précoces du mouvement expressionniste dans son pays.

Originaire de Dresde, Paula Becker s'engage dans des études de peinture et rejoint les artistes indépendants réunis dans le village de Worpswede, non loin de Brême, qui prônent un retour à la nature et aux valeurs simples de la paysannerie. Elle y épouse le peintre Otto Modersohn . Le manque d'audace des peintres worpswediens, toutefois, la pousse à s'ouvrir aux inspirations extérieures et à effectuer des séjours répétés à Paris, auprès de l'avant-garde artistique.

Au cours des quatorze années durant lesquelles elle exerce son art, elle réalise environ 750 toiles, treize estampes et environ un millier de dessins. Son style, particulièrement original, est le fruit d'influences multiples, aux confins de la tradition et de la modernité. Sa peinture présente des aspects mêlant l'impressionnisme de Cézanne, van Gogh ou Gauguin, le cubisme de Picasso, le fauvisme, l'art japonais ou encore l'art de la Renaissance allemande. La force expressive de son œuvre résume à elle seule les principaux aspects de l’art au début du XXe siècle.

Elle meurt à 31 ans, des suites d'un accouchement.

Jusqu'à l'exposition que lui consacre le musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris en 2016, elle restait assez peu connue au-delà des pays germanophones. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. février 1876 – 30. novembre 1907
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“The time is getting closer for you to be coming [to Paula, in Paris]. Now I must ask you for your sake and mine, please spare both of us this time of trial. Let me go, Otto Otto Modersohn. I do not want you as my husband.... accept this fact; don't torture yourself any longer.”

Quote in ‎her Journal, Paris, 3 September, 1906; as quoted in Günter Busch, ‎Liselotte von Reinken (1998) Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals p. 278; as quoted in Stephanie D'Alessandro, ‎Milwaukee Art Museum (2003) German Expressionist Prints, p. 198
1906 + 1907

“How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.”

In her Diary (1898); as quoted in: Werner Haftmann (1966) An analysis of the artists and their work, p. 82
1898

“There are great many Rembrandts here [in Paris]. Even if they are yellow with varnish, I can still learn so much from them, the wrinkled intricacy of things, life itself. There is a little thing here by him.... It is of a women in bed, nude. But the way it's painted, the way the cushions are painted, their shapes, with all those details of lacework, the whole thing is bewitching.”

In a letter to her husband Otto Modersohn, from Boulevard Raspail 203, Paris, 18 February 1903; as quoted in Paula Modersohn-Becker – The Letters and Journals, ed: Günther Busch & Lotten von Reinken; (transl, A. Wensinger & C. Hoey; Taplinger); Publishing Company, New York, 1983, p. 297
1900 - 1905

“I cannot come back to you. Not yet... I do not yet want to have a child by you. I must wait, if it comes again, or if something else comes out of it..”

quote in a letter from Paris, 1906, to Otto in Worpswede; as quoted in Tromp M, Ravelli AC, Reitsma JB, Bonsel GJ, Mol BW: Increasing maternal age at first pregnancy planning: health outcomes and associated costs. In 'J. Epidemiol Community Health', Dec. 2010, p. 4
1906 + 1907

“I feel a burning desire to become grand in simplicity.”

note in her Journal, April 1903; as quoted in Expressionism, a German intuition, 1905-1920, Neugroschel, Joachim; Vogt, Paul; Keller, Horst; Urban, Martin; Dube, Wolf Dieter; (transl. Joachim Neugroschel); publisher: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1980, p. 30
1900 - 1905

“Now it's almost as beautiful as Christmas [then Paula suddenly fell to the floor]…. What a pity! [her last words].”

as quoted in: Paula Modersohn-Becker, the challenges of pregnancy and the weight of tradition, by Giorgina B. Piccoli and Scott L. Karakas; published in: 'Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine', 6 June 2011, p. 1; as quoted in: M. Bohlmann-Modersohn: Paula Modersohn-Becker: eine Biographie mit Briefen, Albrecht Knaus; Berlin 1995, p. 280
Paula had given birth to her (first) child, Mathilde, on 2 November 1907. Her sudden death, on 21 November 1907, due to thromboembolism, occurred almost immediately after she was allowed to leave her bed for the first time following her delivery; her biographers recount that she combed her hair, adorned it with red roses received as presents, and slowly walked to the living room, where her daughter was in her crib. Paula took the young daughter Mathilde (later called Tille) in her arms and fell down, suddenly.
1906 + 1907

“The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff. Her thoughts enter my bloodstream and make me very sad. I say as she doers: if only I could accomplish something! My existence seems humiliating to me. We don't have the right to strut around, not until we've made something of ourselves.”

excerpt of her Journal, Worpswede 1897; as quoted in Voicing our visions, – Writings by women artists; ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991, p. 193
w:Marie Bashkirtseff was a woman-painter born in the Ukraine, who died very young; her Journal was published c. 1895
1897

“I want to go further and further. I can hardly wait until I am a real artist. And then I long so for life. I've only begun to get a little taste of it.”

In her Journal-entry, December, 1898; as quoted in Modersohn-Becker P, Busch G, Reinken LV: Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals, Taplinger; New York 1983, p. 118
1898

“Last year I wrote: 'the intensity with which a subject is grasped, that is what makes for beauty in art'. Isn't it also true for love?”

excerpt of her Journal, Worpswede 1899; as quoted in Voicing our visions, – Writings by women artists; ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991
1899

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