Paula Modersohn-Becker

1876–1907 · Inventor of the pregnant self-portrait

ExpressionismSelf-portraitsThe bodyPrimitivist form

The short version

In seven working years Modersohn-Becker moved from Worpswede naturalism to a raw, sculptural modernism, painting the first known nude self-portraits by a woman artist.

Key works

No image yetSelf-Portrait on the Sixth Wedding Anniversary

Self-Portrait on the Sixth Wedding Anniversary

1906

She paints herself pregnant while she was not.

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