Before leaving Room 501, I want to take a closer look at Paula Modersohn-Becker because she is someone new to me and a German female artist in late victorian Europe. She was born in Dresden-Friedrichstadt in 1876 and died in 1901 of a postpartum embolism. She is notable for being an early expressionist and modernist. She is also notable for her subject matter of female nudes and nude self portraits not seen since Artemisia Gentileschi, three centuries earlier.
'I believe the best thing is for one to go one's own way as if in a dream.' Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker 'Reclining Mother and Child', 1906
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