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Paula Modersohn-Becker war eine deutsche Malerin und einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter des frühen Expressionismus. In den knapp 14 Jahren, in denen sie künstlerisch tätig war, schuf sie 750 Gemälde, etwa 1000 Zeichnungen und 13 Radierungen, die die bedeutendsten Aspekte der Kunst des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts in sich vereinen. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Februar 1876 – 30. November 1907
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„Durch das Zuviel-Arbeiten sündigt man am Leben und an der Arbeit selber.“

Briefe, an Tante Marie, 29. Januar 1903

Zitate über Liebe von Paula Modersohn-Becker

„Darf Liebe nehmen?“

Briefe, an Clara Westhoff, undatiert. ca. Worpswede 1901

„Falsche Nächstenliebe lenkt ab vom wahren Ziele.“

Tagebuchblätter

Paula Modersohn-Becker Zitate und Sprüche

„Am Anfang war die Kraft.“

Tagebuchblätter. Eine Künstlerin. Paula Becker-Modersohn, Briefe und Tagebuchblätter (1918) S. 55 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=pqcPAAAAQAAJ&q=%22war+die+kraft%22
Vgl.: "Es sollte stehn: im Anfang war die Kraft! - Goethe, Faust I Studierstube Vers 1233 s:Seite:Faust_I_(Goethe)_081.jpg

„Belohnt und bestraft werden wir für alles schon auf Erden.“

Briefe (an die Schwester, 18. November 1906)

„Wie schade!“

Die letzten Worte vor ihrem Tod 1907, zitiert nach Ellen C. Oppler: "Paula Modersohn-Becker: Some Facts and Legends", Art Journal, Bd. 35, Nr. 4, 1976, Seiten 364-369

„Das Schönste wäre ja, wenn ich jenes unbewusste Empfinden, was manchmal leicht und lieblich in mir summt, figürlich ausdrücken könnte.“

Briefwechsel, 10. Juni 1898. Briefe und Tagebuchblätter (1920) S. 43 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=xa45AAAAMAAJ&q=%22leicht+und+lieblich%22

„Sinnlichkeit, Sinnlichkeit bis in die Fingerspitze, gepaart mit Keuschheit, das ist das Einzige, Wahre, Rechte für den Künstler.“

Tagebuchblätter. Eine Künstlerin. Paula Becker-Modersohn, Briefe und Tagebuchblätter (1918) S. 53 /books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=pqcPAAAAQAAJ&q=keuschheit

Paula Modersohn-Becker: Zitate auf Englisch

“The time is getting closer for you to be coming [to Paula, in Paris]. Now I must ask you for your sake and mine, please spare both of us this time of trial. Let me go, Otto Otto Modersohn. I do not want you as my husband.... accept this fact; don't torture yourself any longer.”

Quote in ‎her Journal, Paris, 3 September, 1906; as quoted in Günter Busch, ‎Liselotte von Reinken (1998) Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals p. 278; as quoted in Stephanie D'Alessandro, ‎Milwaukee Art Museum (2003) German Expressionist Prints, p. 198
1906 + 1907

“How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.”

In her Diary (1898); as quoted in: Werner Haftmann (1966) An analysis of the artists and their work, p. 82
1898

“There are great many Rembrandts here [in Paris]. Even if they are yellow with varnish, I can still learn so much from them, the wrinkled intricacy of things, life itself. There is a little thing here by him.... It is of a women in bed, nude. But the way it's painted, the way the cushions are painted, their shapes, with all those details of lacework, the whole thing is bewitching.”

In a letter to her husband Otto Modersohn, from Boulevard Raspail 203, Paris, 18 February 1903; as quoted in Paula Modersohn-Becker – The Letters and Journals, ed: Günther Busch & Lotten von Reinken; (transl, A. Wensinger & C. Hoey; Taplinger); Publishing Company, New York, 1983, p. 297
1900 - 1905

“I cannot come back to you. Not yet... I do not yet want to have a child by you. I must wait, if it comes again, or if something else comes out of it..”

quote in a letter from Paris, 1906, to Otto in Worpswede; as quoted in Tromp M, Ravelli AC, Reitsma JB, Bonsel GJ, Mol BW: Increasing maternal age at first pregnancy planning: health outcomes and associated costs. In 'J. Epidemiol Community Health', Dec. 2010, p. 4
1906 + 1907

“I feel a burning desire to become grand in simplicity.”

note in her Journal, April 1903; as quoted in Expressionism, a German intuition, 1905-1920, Neugroschel, Joachim; Vogt, Paul; Keller, Horst; Urban, Martin; Dube, Wolf Dieter; (transl. Joachim Neugroschel); publisher: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1980, p. 30
1900 - 1905

“Now it's almost as beautiful as Christmas [then Paula suddenly fell to the floor]…. What a pity! [her last words].”

as quoted in: Paula Modersohn-Becker, the challenges of pregnancy and the weight of tradition, by Giorgina B. Piccoli and Scott L. Karakas; published in: 'Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine', 6 June 2011, p. 1; as quoted in: M. Bohlmann-Modersohn: Paula Modersohn-Becker: eine Biographie mit Briefen, Albrecht Knaus; Berlin 1995, p. 280
Paula had given birth to her (first) child, Mathilde, on 2 November 1907. Her sudden death, on 21 November 1907, due to thromboembolism, occurred almost immediately after she was allowed to leave her bed for the first time following her delivery; her biographers recount that she combed her hair, adorned it with red roses received as presents, and slowly walked to the living room, where her daughter was in her crib. Paula took the young daughter Mathilde (later called Tille) in her arms and fell down, suddenly.
1906 + 1907

“The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff. Her thoughts enter my bloodstream and make me very sad. I say as she doers: if only I could accomplish something! My existence seems humiliating to me. We don't have the right to strut around, not until we've made something of ourselves.”

excerpt of her Journal, Worpswede 1897; as quoted in Voicing our visions, – Writings by women artists; ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991, p. 193
w:Marie Bashkirtseff was a woman-painter born in the Ukraine, who died very young; her Journal was published c. 1895
1897

“I want to go further and further. I can hardly wait until I am a real artist. And then I long so for life. I've only begun to get a little taste of it.”

In her Journal-entry, December, 1898; as quoted in Modersohn-Becker P, Busch G, Reinken LV: Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals, Taplinger; New York 1983, p. 118
1898

“Last year I wrote: 'the intensity with which a subject is grasped, that is what makes for beauty in art'. Isn't it also true for love?”

excerpt of her Journal, Worpswede 1899; as quoted in Voicing our visions, – Writings by women artists; ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991
1899

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