MODERSOHN-BECKER, Paula: Fairytale picture Sleeping Beauty

✦ MODERSOHN-BECKER, Paula

🖼 Fairytale picture Sleeping Beauty, 1904

▣ Germanisches Nationalmuseum

◎ Nuremberg, Germany

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Soft, dreamlike brushwork renders a prone figure surrounded by shadowy forest forms, bathed in ethereal light. This 1904 interpretation subverts the fairy tale's passivity, presenting Sleeping Beauty as an introspective meditation on female vulnerability rather than romantic fantasy.

The Story of Art

E.H. Gombrich

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