Paula Modersohn-Becker Stiftung





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1876 Minna Hermine Paula Becker is born in Dresden on 8th February. 1888 The family moves to Bremen 1892 Stay in England with relatives, first lessons in drawing at the “St. John’s Wood Art School” London. 1893–95 Seminar for women teachers in Bremen, in addition drawing lessons with the painter Bernhard Wiegandt. 1896 April/May: course at the school of drawing and painting of the “Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen und Kunstfreundinnen” in Berlin, in October an eighteen months training period at the same school, Teachers are Jacob Alberts and Jeanna Bauck among others. 1897 July/August: First stay in Worpswede. 1898 April: Trip to Leipzig, visits Klinger’s studio. September: move to Worpswede, lessons with Mackensen, friendship with Clara Westhoff. 1899 December: Together with Marie Bock and Clara Westhoff Exhibition of some studies in the Kunsthalle Bremen, annihilating review from critic Arthur Fitger. 1900 January to June: First stay in Paris with Clara Westhoff, Académie Colarossi. From july on in Worpswede. A group of friends meets at Vogeler’s “Barkenhoff”, among others Carl Hauptmann and Rainer Maria Rilke. September: engagement with Otto Modersohn. 1901 25th May: marriage with Otto Modersohn, who brings his daughter Elsbeth into the relationship. Trip to Berlin, Dresden, Schreiberhau, Prague, Munich. 1902 Studio at Brünjes house in opposite to Barkenhoff. Temporarily alienation from Rilke. 1903 February/March: Second stay in Paris. 1904 Summer trip to Berlin, Dresden, Kassel, Braunschweig. 1905 February/April: Third stay in Paris. Académie Julian. November: Visit K. E. Osthaus and his Folkwang-Museum in Hagen together with Vogelers. 1906 February: Departure to Paris, she wants to leave Otto Modersohn. Gets to know Ellen Key and Bernhard Hoetger. October: Otto Modersohn arrives in Paris to spend the winter there. Retrospective of Gauguin in the Salon d’Automne. 1907 March: sees the Cézanne collection of Auguste Pellerin. Return to Worpswede. 2nd November: Birth of daughter Mathilde. 20th November: Death of an embolism. 1908/09 Memorial exhibition in Bremen, Kunsthalle; Berlin, Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer; Dresden, Galerie Arnold. 1913 Memorial exhibition in Hagen, Folkwang-Museum; Munich, Neuer Kunstsalon; Jena, Kunstverein; Elberfeld, in the house of von der Heydt; Bremen, Kunsthalle. The collectors Herbert von Garvens-Garvensburg, Karl-Ernst Osthaus, August Freiherr von der Heydt as well as Bernhard Hoetger and Heinrich Vogeler acquireed the most important works. Later Hermann Bahlsen and Ludwig Roselius started their collections.