Misunderstood, dismissed, and unrecognized for decades, Paula Modersohn-Becker, a member of the Worpswede artists' colony, quietly but tenaciously searched for an idiom of her own. Tussling with Cézanne, Gauguin, and van Gogh, her earthly, grainy brush and her barren, strict and almost monumental forms make her one of the foremost female painters of the 20th century. German text.