Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker
Author: Darrieussecq, Marie
ISBN: 9781925498608
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 235mm x 155mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
An unconventional biography of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker by one of France's most acclaimed literary talents
Born in Germany in 1876, Paula Modersohn-Becker was the first female artist to paint herself not only naked but pregnant. Being Here is a moving account of the life of this ground-breaking Expressionist painter, by the acclaimed French writer Marie Darrieussecq. Darrieussecq thrillingly describes Paula?s discovery of her style and choice of subjects-women, babies, domestic life. As her art evolves, Paula is torn between Paris and her home in northern Germany. In Paris she can focus on her work, and mix with artists like Rodin and Monet, or her close friend the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. But Germany is home, and that?s where her painter husband Otto lives. She tells the story of her fraught marriage, her ambivalence about combining her passion for her career as an artist with motherhood. And she recounts her tragic death at thirty-one, days after giving birth.
ISBN: 9781925498608
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 235mm x 155mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
An unconventional biography of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker by one of France's most acclaimed literary talents
Born in Germany in 1876, Paula Modersohn-Becker was the first female artist to paint herself not only naked but pregnant. Being Here is a moving account of the life of this ground-breaking Expressionist painter, by the acclaimed French writer Marie Darrieussecq. Darrieussecq thrillingly describes Paula?s discovery of her style and choice of subjects-women, babies, domestic life. As her art evolves, Paula is torn between Paris and her home in northern Germany. In Paris she can focus on her work, and mix with artists like Rodin and Monet, or her close friend the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. But Germany is home, and that?s where her painter husband Otto lives. She tells the story of her fraught marriage, her ambivalence about combining her passion for her career as an artist with motherhood. And she recounts her tragic death at thirty-one, days after giving birth.
