Paula Modersohn-Becker. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. (MODERSOHN-BECKER, Paula) (1876-1907) - Laerke Rydal Jørgensen (ed.)

Bound in publisher's pictorial boards. Very fine, practically as new. Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014. 4to. 200 pp. Richly illustrated, largely in colour. In English. Published in conjunction with the major retrospective exhibition "Paula Modersohn-Becker" in 2015. - - - "The German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was a loner in visual art around 1900. She insisted on her artistic integrity in a male-dominated milieu and developed an original, highly distinctive aesthetic between German tradition and French modernism, with inspiration also from ancient art. Today her paintings of people and nature still stand out with their unconventional, raw beauty. In this richly illustrated book the story unfolds through introductions and analyses written by art historians with in-depth knowledge of her oeuvre, and interviews with present-day artists. Paula Modersohn-Becker's work, declared entartet (degenerate) by the Nazis in the thirties, is assuming an ever more distinctive position in the history of modern art. Here we see an original young artist hurtling at full speed into the new century that she hardly came to experience.".