Clara Westhoff
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Clara Henriette Sophie Westhoff, also known by her married name Clara Rilke or Clara Rilke-Westhoff was a pioneer German sculptor and artist.
Clara Westhoff, portrait by Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1905
Paula Modersohn-Becker
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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
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…went to Munich, where she attended a private art school. In 1898 she moved to Worpswede and learned sculpture with Fritz Mackensen. She befriended Paula Becker (later Modersohn-Becker) and Ottilie Reylaender, who were painters there. She continued her studies in 1899 with Carl Seffner and Max Klinger in Leipzig…
Paula Modersohn-Becker, year unknown
Dresden-Friedrichstadt: After Paula's birth, the Becker family moved into a house in "Friedrichstraße 29" (today "Friedrichstraße 46").
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-portrait (1897) gouache, PM-B Museum
Schwachhauser Heerstr. 23, Bremen. Becker family home and residence of Paula Becker (1888–1899)