MODERSOHN-BECKER, Paula: Selbstporträt mit Kamelienzweig

The delicate camellia branch—a traditional symbol of feminine beauty and virtue—becomes subversive in her hands, as she presents herself with unflinching directness and simplified forms that anticipate Expressionism. Created during a remarkably productive final years in Paris and Bremen, this intimate yet revolutionary work reveals an artist determined to forge her own visual language while navigating the constraints placed on women in the early modernist movement.