Being Here Is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

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The short, difficult to understand, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), a significant figure in modernism.

First published in France in 2016, Being Here Is So Much traces the short, difficult to understand, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907). In a brief career, cut short by her death from an embolism at the age of thirty-one, in a while after she gave birth to a child, Modersohn-Becker trained in Germany, traveled steadily to Paris, developed close friendships with the sculptor Clara Westhoff and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and become one in all her generation’s preeminent artists, helping introduce modernity to the 20th century alongside such other painters as Picasso and Matisse.

Marie Darrieussecq’s triumphant and illuminating biography immediately revives Modersohn-Becker’s reputation as a significant figure in modernism and sheds light at the extreme difficulty women have faced in attaining recognition and setting up artistic careers.

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