Modersohn-Becker, Paula - Boy in the Snow - Swiss art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: Boy in the Snow, c.1905/6
• Artist (if known):  Paula Modersohn-Becker
• Media or other details:  painting
• Publisher / Gallery: Kunstkartendruck Vontobel, Zurich
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant):  posted in Shropshire to Luton, c.1970s
• Size: modern
• Notes & condition details:

NOTES:

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Stock No.: A421

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Paula Modersohn-Becker (February 8, 1876 � November 21, 1907) was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. In a brief career, cut short by an embolism at the age of 31, she created a number of groundbreaking images of great intensity.

Paula Becker was born and grew up in Dresden-Friedrichstadt. She was the third child of seven children in her family. Her father, who was the son of a Russian university professor, was employed with the German railway. He and Paula's mother, who was from an aristocratic family, provided the children a cultured and intellectual environment in the house hold.

In 1888 her parents moved from Dresden to Bremen. While visiting an aunt in London, England, she received her first instruction in drawing. In the spring of 1893 Paula Becker saw pictures from the artists' cirle of Worpswede for the first time: Otto Modersohn, Fritz Mackensen, Fritz Overbeck and Heinrich Vogeler presented their paintings in the Kunsthalle Bremen. Apart from her teacher's training in Bremen in 1893-1895, Paula took private instruction in painting. In 1896 she participated in a course for painting and drawing sponsored by the ""Verein der Berliner K�nstlerinnen"" (Union of Berlin Female Artists) which offered art studies to women.

At the age of 22, she encountered the artistic community of Worpswede. In this ""village"", artists such as Fritz Mackensen (1866-1953) and Heinrich Vogeler (1872-1942) had retreated to protest against the domination of the art academy and life in the big city. At Worpswede, Paula Modersohn-Becker took painting lessons from Mackensen. The main subjects were the life of the farmers and the northern German landscape. At this time she began close friendships with the sculptor Clara Westhoff (1875-1954) and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926).

New Year's Eve 1899 Paula Becker traveled to Paris. Clara Westhoff, her girlfriend from Worpswede was in Paris since the end of 1899, because she hoped to become a student of [[Auguste Rodin]. In 1900, Paula Becker studied at the Acad�mie Colarossi in the Quartier Latin in Paris.

Since April 1900 the great Centennial Exhibition was held in Paris. On this occasion the couple Overbeck and with them Otto Modersohn arrived in June. Modersohn's health ailing wife Helen had been left in Worpswede and died during the short time he spent in Paris. Modersohn and the couple rushed back to Germany.

In 1901 she married Otto Modersohn and became a stepmother to Otto's daughter, Elsbeth Modersohn, the child from his first marriage.

Until 1907 Paula made another six extended trips to Paris for artistic purposes, sometimes living separately from her husband, Otto. During one of her residencies in Paris, she took courses at the �cole des Beaux-Arts. She visited contemporary exhibitions often, and was particularly intrigued with the work of Paul C�zanne. Other post impressionists were especially influential, including Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. Fauve influences may also appear in such works as Poorhouse Woman with a Glass Bottle. The influence by the work of French painter, Jean-Fran�ois Millet, who was widely admired among the artists in the Worpswede group, may be seen in such pieces as her 1900 Peat Cutters.

In her last trip to Paris in 1906, she produced a series of paintings from which she felt very great excitement and satisfaction. During this period of painting, she produced her initial nude self-portraits - something surely unprecedented by a female painter - and portraits of friends such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Werner Sombart. Some art historians consider this period to be the strongest and most compelling time of her art production.

1907, Paula Modersohn-Becker returned to her husband in Worpswede. Their relationship, which had been particularly strained in 1906, had taken a turn towards improvement. Paula's long-lived wish to conceive and bear a child was fulfilled. Her daughter Mathilde (Tillie) Modersohn was born on November 2, 1907. Paula and Otto were joyous. Sadly, the joy became soon overshadowed by tragedy, as Paula Modersohn-Becker died suddenly in Worpswede on November 20 from an embolism.

In 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote the renowned poem ""Requiem for a Friend"" in memory of Paula. The poem was born from the impressions which Paula's life, death and friendship had left upon Rilke.

Already in 1899 the sculptor Clara Westhoff made ??a bust of her friend Paula Becker as a symbol of their friendship and shared passion for art.

Her daughter Tillie (1907-1998) founded the Paula Modersohn-Becker-Foundation (Paula Modersohn-Becker-Stiftung) in 1978.

In 1988 a stamp with the portrait of Paula Modersohn-Becker was issued in the series Women in German history by the Deutsche Bundespost.

A former house of Paula Modersohn-Becker's in Bremen, where she spent much of her life, opened in October 2007 as a private art museum and gallery.^[1] Her family moved from Dresden to Bremen in 1888 and lived in this house. Paula Becker lived here until 1899 - when she was 23 years old - and set up her first studio. There was an active artist community in Bremen and via Backer's mother's friendships in the art world, Becker grew to be part of the community. Apart from her teacher's training in Bremen in 1893-1895, Paula took private instruction in painting.^[2] It was not well known, that the young Paula Becker lived here for ten years. In 2003, Heinz and Betty Thies bought the house which was now greatly in need of renovation. It was lovingly restored in time for the 100th anniversary of Paula Modersohn-Becker's death in in November 2007. At that time, it was turned into a public museum. ^[3]

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