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DENMARK / Humlebæk: PAULA MODERSOHN-BECKER
by Modem
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until Monday April 06 2015

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
T : +45 (0)8 49 19 07 19
Gl. Strandvej 13
3050 Humlebæk
Denmark



Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is organizing the first major exhibition in Scandinavia of the German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). The exhibition comprises about 100 paintings and drawings.

The exhibition presents the highly distinctive production of Paula Modersohn-Becker, an artist with the status of one of the radical innovators of German modernism. She is known as one of the first to introduce the modern French impulses into German painting – that is, inspirations from painters like Cézanne and Gauguin, whom she studied in Paris. But she is also known for her new view of the female figure in particular, and for an oeuvre that creates a special combination of the non-idyllizing and the archaic. This applies to both landscape and figure paintings, and not least to her representations of women and children, of the mother figure and herself.

© Modem