Paula Modersohn Becker in Paris
Ms Modersohn-Becker was born in Dresden-Friedrichstadt, Germany in 1876, and began drawing at a young age. She briefly attended St John’s Wood School of Art in England, but eventually returned to Germany to train as a teacher, at her parents’ behest.
Her teaching career did not last long. At the ripe age of 18, Ms Modersohn-Becker used her inheritance to move to a German artist’s colony known as the Worpswede school. It was there that she met and befriended sculptor Clara Westhoff, with whom she made her first trip to Paris.
