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MODERSOHN-BECKER, Paula: Head of a Girl

🖼 Head of a Girl, 1905
Frankfurt, Germany

Soft brushwork renders a girl's tilted head in earthy ochres and greens, her simplified features and direct gaze creating intimate immediacy. Modersohn-Becker's proto-Expressionist approach pioneered modernist portraiture, influencing generations of artists before her death at twenty-eight.

The Story of Art
The Story of Art
E.H. Gombrich
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