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MODERSOHN-BECKER, Paula: Worpsweder Bauernkind

🖼 Worpsweder Bauernkind, 1901
Oil on cardboard
43 × 33 cm
Hannover, Germany

Soft, earthy tones render a peasant child with simplified features and direct gaze, capturing rural innocence through modernist reduction. Modersohn-Becker pioneered German Expressionism by merging folk subjects with bold formal abstraction, establishing women's radical artistic voice.

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