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Paula Modersohn-Becker
1876 Dresden - Worpswede 1907
Worpswede Peasant Child Sitting on a Chair, 1905 - Detail
Artist | Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907 in Germany)
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Worpsweder Landschaft
Worpswede Landscape (c.1903)
oil on cardboard
61.5 x 68 cm
Exhibitor | Museum Ludwig, Köln
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MLK108
Edvard Munch
1863 Engelhaug bei Loten - Oslo 1944
The Child and Death, 1899 - Detail
Oil on canvas
In contrast to Modersohn-Becker's sober portraits of children, this depiction of a girl, wide-eyed, holding her hands to her ears in desperation, expresses maximum intensity. Nevertheless, Munch also confined the scene at the deathbed to a few formal features: the child's figure in vertical, the bed with the corpse horizontal. The distribution of warm and cool shades also indicates where life and death are located. Like many of his pictures of existential states of mind this one has an autobiographical background. Munch lost his mother when he was only five years old - she died of tuberculosis.
Girl in a Birch Forest, ca. 1903
oil paint, cardboard
54.2 x 39.8 cm
Inv. 1991-I
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Dresden 1876 - Worpswede 1907
Edvard Munch
1863 Engelhaug bei Loten - Oslo 1944
The Child and Death, 1899
Oil on canvas
In contrast to Modersohn-Becker's sober portraits of children, this depiction of a girl, wide-eyed, holding her hands to her ears in desperation, expresses maximum intensity. Nevertheless, Munch also confined the scene at the deathbed to a few formal features: the child's figure in vertical, the bed with the corpse horizontal. The distribution of warm and cool shades also indicates where life and death are located. Like many of his pictures of existential states of mind this one has an autobiographical background. Munch lost his mother when he was only five years old - she died of tuberculosis.