Paula Modersohn-Becker

Paula Modersohn-Becker, a German painter, was one of the most significant figures of early Expressionism. Although she had a brief career, cut short by an embolism at age 31, she created a body or revolutionary work that was bold and intense in both color and subject. She is recognized as the first female artist to paint female nudes and, along with Picasso and Matisse, she introduced Modernism to the world at the beginning of the twentieth century.