MODERSOHN-BECKER, PAULA1876 Dresden - 1907 Worpswede


Title: Birkenstämme vor rotem Gehöft.
Date: Ca. 1901.
Technique: Oil on card.
Measurement: 56 x 41cm.
Notation: Monogrammed lower right: P.M-B. Illegibly inscribed on verso (faded).
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


The work is accompanied by a certificate from Prof. Dr. Günter Busch, Bremen, dated 8 May 1990.

Provenance:
- Galerie Bertram, Bremen 1990
- Private collection, Hesse

Exhibitions:
- Galerie Bertram, Bremen 1990

Literature:
- Busch, Günther/Werner, Wolfgang (ed.): Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1876-1907 - catalogue raisonné of paintings, vol. II, Munich 1998, cat. rais. no. 255, ill. (here with slightly different dimensions)
- Exhib. cat. Paula Modersohn-Becker, Galerie Bertram, Bremen 1990, p. 35, ill.

- The white birch trunks and red farmsteads are characteristic features of the Worpswede landscape
- The artist processed the newly gained artistic impressions from her first stay in Paris in 1900 in her paintings
- Painted in the year of her marriage to Otto Modersohn, which was also a period of great creative vigour.