Paula Modersohn-Becker in her artist quotes on painting & life - free resource, German art history

Paula Modersohn-Becker in quotes - the artist on her painting art & her artistic life in Worpswede, Germany and later in Paris - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in German art history

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In her quotes Paula Modersohn describes her early painting works and her life in Worpswede, the famous artist-colony in North-Germany. There she painted in open-air her German landscape paintings of the different seasons and many portraits as well (of children and mothers)! She writes about the impact of Nature on her senses and on her painting-style. Paula moved between Impressionism and German Expressionism - in my personal view.

In later letters Paula describes her stay in Paris with her depressions and her painterly uncertainties - but also her great joy to see in reality the paintings there of her French artist-heroes Cezanne and Matisse. She writes how painting demanded a great deal of her energy. But: ‘…working and sleeping in the same room with my paintings is a delight’.
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Some selected quotes of German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker - as a short introduction of her extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Worpswede, Worpswede, Worpswede! [small rural village in North-Germany were a colony of German artists was working then, including Paula] My sunken Bell mood! Birches, birches, pine trees and old willows. Beautiful brown moors - exquisite brown!’ - Paula Modersohn’s quote, from her German Journal, Worpswede 1897

• ’Recently I have felt just what the mood of colors means to me: it means that everything in this picture changes its local color according to the same principle and that thereby all muted tones blend in a unified relationship, one to the other.’ - quote of Paula Modersohn-Becker, from her Journal, July 1989

• ’The intensity with which a subject is grasped - still life’s, portraits, or creations of the imagination - that is what makes for beauty in art’ - quote of Paula, from her Journal, Worpswede, Germany, 1899
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  selection of free art-resources on German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker:

  • biographical notes on Paula Modersohn, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Modersohn-Becker
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Paula Modersohn, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paula_Modersohn-Becker
  • images of the painting art of Paula Modersohn, Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/paula-modersohn-becker
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]