My blonde was here again today. This time with her little boy at her breast. I had to draw her as a mother, had to. That is her single true purpose. Marvelous, these gleaming white breasts in her fiery red blouse. The whole thing is so grand in its shape and color…


excerpt of her Journal, Worpswede 1897; as quoted in Voicing our visions, – Writings by women artists; ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991, p. 193

Paula Modersohn-Becker Quotes

My blonde was here again today. This time with her little boy at her breast. I had to draw her as a mother, had to. That is her single true purpose....

My blonde was here again today. This time with her little boy at her breast. I had to draw her as a mother, had to. That is her single true purpose....

My blonde was here again today. This time with her little boy at her breast. I had to draw her as a mother, had to. That is her single true purpose....

My blonde was here again today. This time with her little boy at her breast. I had to draw her as a mother, had to. That is her single true purpose....