Paula Modersohn-Becker
Or: When Art Is Life
With 12 photographs and 16 pages of colour charts
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Paula Modersohn-Becker / Paula Modersohn-Becker
Or: When Art Is Life
With 12 photographs and 16 pages of colour charts
She had only ever sold two paintings when she died in 1907, a few days after the birth of her daughter, as the result of an embolism. Paula Modersohn-Becker died young, at just thirty-one. But she left behind more than one thousand drawings and about seven hundred paintings.
Met with hostility in her lifetime, underestimated for many years by posterity, she is now being rediscovered: as a confident woman whose life and art belong to modernity – not least because of the...
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She had only ever sold two paintings when she died in 1907, a few days after the birth of her daughter, as the result of an embolism. Paula Modersohn-Becker died young, at just thirty-one. But she left behind more than one thousand drawings and about seven hundred paintings.
Met with hostility in her lifetime, underestimated for many years by posterity, she is now being rediscovered: as a confident woman whose life and art belong to modernity – not least because of the exciting and bestselling biography written by Barbara Beuys.
»In her meticulously researched while simultaneously easily accessible biography Barbara Beuys described the gripping life story of this extraordinary woman: her childhood in picturesque Dresden and her education in tumultuous Berlin, the dreamy artists’ village of Worpswede and her life in the art capital of Paris, which became her artistic home.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»In her meticulously researched while simultaneously easily accessible biography Barbara Beuys described the gripping life story of this extraordinary woman: her childhood in picturesque Dresden and her education in tumultuous Berlin, the dreamy artists’ village of Worpswede and her life in the art capital of Paris, which became her artistic home.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung
2009, 346 pages
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Barbara Beuys
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Barbara Beuys, born in 1943, has worked as an editor at German newspapers and magazines such as Stern, Merian and DIE ZEIT after earning a PhD in history. Today Barbara Beuys lives in Cologne where she works as a freelance author. She has written successful and widely received biographies on Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Hildegard von Bingen, Li Qingzhao, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Sophie Scholl, Helene Schjerfbeck and Maria Sibylla Merian, among others.
Barbara Beuys
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Barbara Beuys, born in 1943, has worked as an editor at German newspapers and magazines such as Stern, Merian and DIE...
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