Paula Modersohn-Becker Foundation

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The Paula Modersohn-Becker Foundation is an art foundation in Bremen - Mitte .

Child on a red-diced pillow, 1904

history

In 1978 Tille Modersohn (1907–1998, actually Mathilde), daughter of the expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker and the painter Otto Modersohn , founded the Paula Modersohn-Becker Foundation . She gave her mother's works in her possession to this foundation, consisting of more than 50 paintings along with around 500 drawings and other etchings in print form. The foundation's task was to preserve the estate and to process the complete works of Modersohn-Becker in terms of art history. For this purpose, the publication of a catalog raisonné and the exhibition of the donated works were also determined.

The works are regularly exhibited in the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen-Mitte on Böttcherstraße and in the Kunsthalle Bremen . The foundation, museum and art gallery, along with over 100 paintings and a further 700 drawings by Modersohn-Becker, can present a large part of the artistic work to the public.

The foundation's headquarters are in Bremen at Rembertistraße 1A at the corner of Contrescarpe . The classicist house was built in 1846 by the Bremen master builder Diedrich Christian Rutenberg . The monument has been under Bremen monument protection since 1973 (see list of cultural monuments in Bremen-Mitte ).

On the executive board of the foundation are Rainer Stamm Oldenburg, Klaus Eissing Bremen, Gisela Götte Neuss and Wolfgang Werner (as of 2016).

Exhibitions

Sources, literature

  • Günter Busch and Wolfgang Werner (eds.): Paula Modersohn Becker, catalog raisonné of the paintings , 2 vols.
  • Günter Busch, Wolfgang Werner and Milena Schicketanz: Catalog raisonné . Munich 1998, Volume 1: Essays, 302 pp., 139 color images, 118 images; Volume 2: Catalog of the paintings, 614 p., 783 fig.
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paula Modersohn-Becker Foundation. (With a photo by Tille Modersohn) Retrieved May 1, 2013.
  2. ^ Paula Modersohn-Becker Foundation: Address, accessed on May 1, 2013.

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 38.2 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 47.9"  E