Artist Monograph

Paula Modersohn-Becker, German

German, 1876–1907

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Etching	8	80%
Oil Painting	1	10%
Other Media	1	10%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	9	90%
Painting & Sculpture	1	10%

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	6	60%
Medium (30–100 cm)	4	40%

Range: 12.0 cm → 55.3 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1940	1
1954	3
2017	1
2025	5

German Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 10 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Blind Woman in the Woods (Blinde Frau im Walde) Print Acc. 130.1954	c. 1899–1902, printed posthumously 1922–23	Etching and aquatint	plate: 6 5/16 x 5 1/2" (16 x 14 cm); sheet: 17 5/8 x 12 7/16" (44.8 x 31.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Larry Aldrich Fund
Bulthaupt Home with Reflection, Burgstall (Haus Bulthaupt mit Spiegelung, Burgstall) Print Acc. 72.2025	c. 1899, printed posthumously c. 1971	Etching with aquatint	plate: 5 9/16 × 3 9/16" (14.2 × 9.1 cm); sheet: 14 × 10 3/16" (35.6 × 25.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints
Portrait of a Peasant Woman (Bildnis einer Bäuerin) Print Acc. 128.1954	c. 1899–1902, printed posthumously 1922–23	Etching and aquatint	plate: 4 × 5 1/2" (10.1 × 14 cm); sheet: 10 3/4 × 13 1/8" (27.3 × 33.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Larry Aldrich Fund
Seated Child (Sitzendes Kind) Print Acc. 438.1940	c. 1899-1902, printed posthumously 1922-23	Drypoint	plate: 3 1/4 x 4 3/4" (8.3 x 12 cm); sheet: 9 3/8 x 11 13/16" (23.8 x 30 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Seated Old Woman (Sitzende Alte) Print Acc. 129.1954	c. 1899–1902, printed posthumously 1922–23	Etching and aquatint	plate: 7 3/8 x 5 3/4" (18.8 x 14.6 cm); sheet: 10 1/16 x 8 3/8" (25.6 x 21.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Larry Aldrich Fund
Sitting Girl Nude (Sitzender Mädchenakt) Print Acc. 71.2025	c. 1899, printed posthumously c. 1918	Drypoint etching	plate: 7 1/2 × 5 7/8" (19 × 14.9 cm); sheet: 16 3/4 × 13 3/16" (42.6 × 33.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints
The Goose Girl (Die Gänsemagd) Print Acc. 69.2025	c. 1899, printed posthumously c. 1913	Etching with aquatint	plate: 9 7/8 × 8" (25.1 × 20.3 cm); sheet: 14 13/16 × 12" (37.6 × 30.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints
Two Peasant Girls (Zwei Bauernmädchen) Print Acc. 70.2025	c. 1899, printed posthumously 1913-14	Etching with roulette	plate: 5 1/2 × 3 15/16" (14 × 10 cm); sheet: 8 1/2 × 7 3/16" (21.6 × 18.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints
The Woman with the Goose (Die Frau mit der Gans) Print Acc. 73.2025	1902, printed posthumously 1913-14	Etching with aquatint and roulette	plate: 4 13/16 × 6 3/4" (12.3 × 17.1 cm); sheet: 7 7/8 × 10 1/4" (20 × 26 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints
Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand Painting Acc. 570.2017	1907	Oil on canvas	21 3/4 × 9 3/4" (55.2 × 24.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Jointly owned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Debra and Leon Black, and Neue Galerie New York, Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder

The Met (CC0 Open Access) — 1 record

Title / Object	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Culture / Geography	Department	Rights
Seven Trees Drawing Wikidata	ca. 1900–1902	Charcoal on paper	8 5/8 × 11 3/4 in. (21.9 × 29.8 cm)		Modern and Contemporary Art Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata