Artwork details · 2026-01-15

Selfportrait at 6th wedding anniversary

by Paula Modersohn-Becker · 1906

Selfportrait at 6th wedding anniversary by Paula Modersohn-Becker

Artist

Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German Expressionist painter and draftswoman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is noted for the many self-portraits, including nudes. She is considered one of the most important representatives of early expressionism, producing more than 700 paintings and over 1000 drawings during her active painting life. She is recognized both as the first known woman painter to paint nude self-portraits, and the first woman to have a museum devoted exclusively to her art. Additionally, she is believed to be the first woman artist to depict herself pregnant.

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Artwork

Self-portrait at 6th wedding anniversary, also known as Self-portrait on the sixth wedding anniversary and Self-portrait on the sixth anniversary of marriage, is a painting by the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker during her stay in Paris in 1906.

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Artist
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Year
1906
Movement
Expressionism
Country
Germany
Location
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum