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Paula Modersohn-Becker

1876 - 1907

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Paula Modersohn-Becker (8 February 1876 – 20 November 1907) was a German Expressionist painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is noted for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits. She is considered one of the most important representatives of early expressionism, producing more than 700 paintings and over 1000 drawings during her active painting life. She is recognized both as the first known woman painter to paint nude self-portraits, and the first woman to have a museum devoted exclusively to her art (the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, founded 1927). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paula Modersohn-Becker is the 325th most popular painter (down from 323rd in 2019), the 869th most popular biography from Germany (up from 885th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Painter.

Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German painter who was most famous for her self-portraits.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker ranks 325 out of 2,023. Before her are Giacomo Balla, Il Sodoma, Vasily Vereshchagin, Federico Barocci, Max Beckmann, and Taddeo Gaddi. After her are Max Liebermann, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Niccolò dell'Abbate, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Félicien Rops, and Thomas Couture.

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Among people born in 1876, Paula Modersohn-Becker ranks 32. Before her are Elsa Einstein, Dragutin Dimitrijević, Bruno Walter, Maxim Litvinov, Wilhelm Cuno, and Max Jacob. After her are Kim Koo, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Walter Sydney Adams, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, and Sherwood Anderson. Among people deceased in 1907, Paula Modersohn-Becker ranks 19. Before her are Kato Svanidze, Marcellin Berthelot, Pierre Janssen, Jean Casimir-Perier, Robert I, Duke of Parma, and Joseph Joachim. After her are Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Ilia Chavchavadze, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, Léo Taxil, and Hermann Carl Vogel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paula Modersohn-Becker ranks 869 out of 7,253. Before her are Jack Steinberger (1921), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748), Theodor Billroth (1829), Emmy Göring (1893), Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), and Franz Joseph Gall (1758). After her are Max Liebermann (1847), Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (1751), Wilhelm Windelband (1848), Volker Schlöndorff (1939), Sophie of Württemberg (1818), and Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1578).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Paula Modersohn-Becker ranks 29. Before her are Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), Hans Holbein the Elder (1465), Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937), Erwin Bowien (1899), Carl Spitzweg (1808), and Max Beckmann (1884). After her are Max Liebermann (1847), Anna Maria van Schurman (1607), Philipp Otto Runge (1777), Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), Johan Zoffany (1733), and Erich Heckel (1883).

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