Landschaft mit Birken, im Hintergrund zwei Hausgiebel. Um 1900.
Oil on paper, on cardboard.
54.8 x 40.5 cm (21.5 x 15.9 in).
With a fragment of a confirmation of authenticity by Prof. Dr. Emil Waldmann, Kunsthalle Bremen, from August 2, 1922, pasted on the reverse and with a stamp of Kunsthalle Bremen (Lugt L. 294).
• Her unique reduction to the essential makes Modersohn-Becker an important representative of early Expressionism.
• In 1900 she visited Paris for the first time and became acquainted with the reduced yet monumental formal language of Cézanne, van Gogh and Gauguin.
• In the solitude of the Worpswede landscape, she processed the newly gained impressions.
• The artist's works are in important international collections like the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Kunstmuseum Basel.

PROVENANCE: Mita Boecking Collection Schwerte.
Private collection Schleswig-Holstein.
Private collection Northern Germany.

LITERATURE: Günter Busch, Milena Schicketanz, Wolfgang Werner, Paula Modersohn Becker 1876-1907. Catalogue raisonné of paintings, volume II, Munich 1998, cat. no. 130 (illu. on p. 130).
Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, 123rd auction, November 27, 2004, cat. no. 118 (color illu.).