Exciting Events to Come

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

MODERSOHN-BECKER AT MOMA!



 

 

 

 

 

 

The Museum of Modern Art and Neue Galerie New York Acquire Paula Modersohn-Becker Painting, the Only Self-Portrait by the Artist in the United Sates

 

 

 

 

 

 

"In the portrait she painted of herself pregnantthe first such image in artModersohn-Becker holds up two flowers that she thrusts right at the viewer.  She insists on the creative woman's twin gifts: her genius and her biology.  Not since Manet's Olympia has such a no-nonsense glance been leveled at the viewer.  Deal with it, she challenges us: deal with the metaphor and the reality."

 

Diane Radycki, Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist (Yale University Press, 2013)

Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907), Self-Portrait Holding Two Flowers, (Third Trimester) 1907. Museum of Modern Art, New York

PAST EVENTS

April 8–August 21, 2016

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

The artist’s first solo exhibition in France, Paula Modersohn-Becker: L’Intensité d’un Regard includes over one hundred thirty painting and drawings.  Accompanying the exhibition is the first French biography of the painteron which Diane Radycki was a consultantEtre ici est une splendeur: Vie de Paula M. Becker (Editions P.O.L., 2016), by the award-winning writer Marie Darrieussecq (Prix Médicis).

Read the review by Stéphane Guégan, Le Monde, Apr. 9, 2016.

 

November 3, 2015–March 19, 2016

Galerie St. Etienne, New York

The painter’s first American showing in thirty-two years, Paula Modersohn-Becker: Art and Life includes over fifty paintings, drawings, and prints, as well as a small selection of works by her husband Otto Modersohn and her Worpswede colleague Heinrich Vogeler. Opening reception featured a talk by Diane Radycki.

 

December 5, 2014–June 4, 2015

Copenhagen, Denmark

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

The first major exhibition in Scandinavia of the work of Paula Modersohn-Becker, with over 100 paintings and drawings. Accompanying the exhibition is a multi-authored catalogue that includes the essay “Body of Evidence: Modersohn-Becker's Reclining Mother-and-Child Nude” by Diane Radycki.

 

July 31, 2014

University of Salzburg, Austria

Salzburg Institute Symposium paper: “Whose Utopia?” on the impact of aesthetics, economics, and politics on three couples (the Modersohns, the Rilkes, and the Vogelers) at the heart of the Worpswede art colony in the 1900s, as Naturalism gave way to Modernism. Participants in the all-day symposium on utopia (“A Perfect World?”) came from Austria, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, and the United States.

 

 

APRIL 9, 2014

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

“Modern Painting’s Missing Piece”: A panel discussion at the New York Public Library (An Art Book series program) about Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist. Author Diane Radycki was joined by The New Yorker staff writer and award-winning journalist John Colapinto; distinguished scholar of fin-de-siècle Austrian and German art Alessandra Comini; novelist Marie Darrieussecq (winner of the 2013 Prix Médicis, nominee for the Prix Goncourt and Prix Fémina, and currently at work on a novel about Paula Modersohn-Becker); Susanne Gerlach, Director of Böttcherstrasse GmbH / Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum; and meme art pioneer Grace Graupe-Pillard.

More information:

http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2014/04/09/first-modern-woman-artist-john-colapinto-alessandra-comini-susanne-gerlac#.UuAeYzQAsAM.email

 

 

March 4, 2014

Jarvis Stewart Guest Lecture

Ohio Wesleyan University

At the invitation of the Fine Arts Department of Ohio Wesleyan University, Diane Radycki delivered the Jarvis Stewart Lecture, in spring semester 2014, on the life and work of Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) and her relationship to the work of Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), the most important German women artists of the 20th century.

Ohio Wesleyan’s Permanent Teaching Collection holds several early prints by Käthe Kollwitz, from 1904 and 1910.

 

November 9, 2013

American University

Washington, D.C.

Feminist Art History Conference paper: “The Woman Genius and High Modernism: Virginia Woolf, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and To the Lighthouse.”

 

October 30, 2013

University of Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana

At the invitation of the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literature, guest lecture: “Trees and Figures, or Metaphor, Synecdoche, and the Modern Woman.”

(Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dames holds an early painting by Modersohn-Becker, Tree in Autumn Foliage, 1899.)

 

September 10, 2013

Rizzoli Bookstore

New York City

Book launch for Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist (Yale University Press, 2013).