The Neue Galerie Pays Homage to Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Mother of German Expressionism

Sandra Bertrand | Highbrow Magazine | 6th August 2024

Modersohn-Becker, prodigiously talented, spent her early career moving between a restrictive marriage in Bremen and artistic freedom in Paris. She died young, soon after childbirth. Two things make her story distinctive. First, her many self-portraits are now seen as boldly modern and done in a style that anticipates expressionism. Secondly, her early death leaves the perpetual question, “what if”.