by Paula Modersohn-Becker edited by Gunter Busch, Liselotte Von Reinken and Arthur S. Wensinger translated by Carole Clew Hoey and Arthur S. Wensinger
Northwestern University Press, 1998 Paper: 978-0-8101-1644-3 Library of Congress Classification ND588.M58A3 1998 Dewey Decimal Classification 759.3
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
One of the great modern painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer who left behind journals and a sizable correspondence. This edition includes every extant letter, all carefully annotated, and is illustrated with forty-six black-and-white plates.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Paula Modersohn-Becker (February 8, 1876 – November 21, 1907) was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. In a brief career, cut short by an embolism at the age of 31, she created a number of groundbreaking images of great intensity.
Günter Busch is the director of the Bremen Art Institute; Liselotte von Reinken is the former cultural editor of Radio Bremen; Arthur S. Wensinger is chairman of the Department of German Language and Literature at Wesleyan University.
Carole Clew Hoey is a former newspaper reporter and administrator at Wesleyan University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Letters and Journals
1892-1896
1896-1899
1900
1901-1905
1905-1907
Appendixes
A Note on This Edition
Frequently Cited Sources with Their Abbreviations
Notes
Rilke and the Letters and Journals of Paula Modersohn-Becker
Biographical Outline
Notes on the Illustrations
Checklist of Exhibitions
Bibliography of Works on Paula Modersohn-Becker
Index to the Letters
Index
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