5 Works to Know by Paula Modersohn-Becker, the ‘First Modern Woman Artist’

When it comes to art history, firsts are notoriously tough to pinpoint—it can be difficult to definitively state that someone did something before anyone else when the world is so big and when visual expression is so diverse. But Paula Modersohn-Becker is believed to be a true pioneer at a least a few respects. She is considered to be among the first modern women to create a nude self-portrait and one of the first to paint such an image of herself pregnant. Her biographer, Diane Radycki, w