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[flamenco guitar music]

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Paula Becker.

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Otto Modersohn.

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Her: faces, portraits, the intense gazes of children.

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Him: nature, and the gentle subtlety of landscapes.

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Paula: a free, intuitive visionary.

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Otto: generous and melancholy.

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In early 20th century Germany, the painter Otto Modersohn

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would help the woman he loved become one

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of the greatest painters in modern art.

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[tango music]

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Paula and Otto\'s story is one of love bedeviled

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by creative torment and the shadow of death.

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[clock ticking]

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[glass crashing]

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[whimsical music]

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[dramatic music]

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July 26th, 1900.

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A young woman felt she was in imminent danger.

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She did not have a moment to lose.

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The woman\'s name was Paula Becker.

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She was a painter, 24 years old.

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She was engaged in a race against the clock,

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as she felt her days were numbered.

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\"I know that I shall not live for long.

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\"But is that really so sad?

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\"Is a party better because it is longer?

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\"My senses are becoming keener,

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\"as if in the few years I have left,

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\"I have to assimilate everything.

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\"I am absorbing everything, breathing it in.\"

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Paula had everything going for her.

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She was bright, young and passionate,

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and had a talent for painting.

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[melancholic music]

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Where did this premonition

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that she had so little time left to live come from?

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[clocks ticking]

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Paula had every reason to be happy.

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She lived north of Bremen in Germany,

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at the heart of a remarkable community of young, fearless,

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even inquisitive artists who made up the artist community

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of the village of Worpswede.

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This bevy of bright young things had left the bustle

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of their industrial cities for the countryside.

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One of them, an artist, attracted Paula\'s attention:

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the painter Otto Modersohn.

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[tango music]

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\"I remember a tall man with a brown suit

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\"and a ginger beard.

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\"His eyes were somehow gentle and kind.

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\"His landscapes were deeply atmospheric.\"

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The painter Otto Modersohn was one

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of the painters who formed this artistic community.

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He led an orderly life following his creative inspiration.

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[tango music]

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Since he was 11 years old,

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he had spent his free time drawing in his coloring book,

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using fine delicate lines.

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His father Wilhem wanted him to be a philosophy teacher.

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But giving in to his son\'s insistence,

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he finally consented to enrolling him

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in Dusseldorf\'s College of Fine Art.

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[tango music]
[pencil scratching]

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He very soon became bored with academic painting.

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So, he turned his attention

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to his only real source of inspiration: nature.

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[bee buzzing]
[birds chirping]

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In 1888, when Otto was 23,

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he painted his first great work: \"The Delights of Summer\".

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\"Since I began the painting a few days ago,

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\"I have felt an indescribable sense of joy and geniality.

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[upbeat music]

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\"I want to embrace the whole world.

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\"I was born to be a landscape artist.\"

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[car horn honks]

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A year later, Otto took a major decision:

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he moved to Worpswede.

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Its countryside provided the painter with sources

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of inspiration that would enrich his palette;

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an inspiring natural world of fields, marshes and peat-bogs.

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\"How should one paint?

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\"With a hesitant, free, light, detached hand.

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\"Little by little I am starting to see and sense

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\"that one can do anything with color.

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\"It should make your fingertips tingle.\"

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[bee buzzing]

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[gentle music]

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In the summer of 1898,

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a woman joined the Worpswede community.

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Her name was Paula Becker.

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She was just 22 years old,

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but was determined to be part of this artistic movement.

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Otto Modersohn saw her for the first time in the distance.

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\"She was helping an almost blind old woman

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\"from the hospice to her workshop, and walked past my house.

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[gentle music]

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\"Her appearance, the liveliness

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\"of her conversation charmed me

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\"from the moment I first saw her.\"

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Otto was intrigued by this woman

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with the singular personality.

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She was young, independent and, most of all, very sensitive.

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[birds chirping]

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[gentle piano music]

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[child giggling]

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[gentle piano music]

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Paula and her six siblings grew up in a middle class family.

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Her father Carl was an engineer.

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He and his wife shared a passion for art.

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[audience applauding]

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Paula had her first drawing lesson at the age of 16,

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before joining a Berlin art school

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that was reserved for women.

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[gentle music]

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The faces around her fascinated her.

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[film reel whirring]

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She naturally developed a predilection for portraits.

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[gentle music]

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\"Today, I painted my first outdoor painting

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\"in front of the clay pit.

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\"It was of a little blue-eyed girl.

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\"The way she stood by the golden sand was so beautiful.

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\"It really touched me.\"

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[gentle music]

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Ever since her childhood,

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a face had haunted Paula.

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It was a face rooted in her memory.

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[waves lapping]

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At the age of 10, she had watched helplessly

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as her cousin died.

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[waves lapping]

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She had seen her disappear before her very eyes,

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gradually swallowed by a sand dune.

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[dramatic music]

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Ever since, she had been conscious of her vital need

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to live and create.

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[clock ticking]

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Her cheerful, mischievous personality asserted itself.

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Paula threw herself body and soul into drawing and painting,

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and aspired to becoming a great artist.

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[audience applauding]

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[birds chirping]
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[frog croaking]

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Worpswede\'s natural beauty was not only conducive

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to creativity, but to love, too.

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There was a connection between Paula and Otto.

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Paula saw Otto as a reassuring, almost paternal figure.

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She was captivated.

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\"Modersohn came to see me recently.

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\"He said so many nice things about my paintings

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\"that I couldn\'t believe he meant mine.

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\"He was so kind.

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\"It just so happens that I hold Modersohn\'s judgment

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\"in high esteem.\"

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But here\'s the rub: Otto shared his life

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with his wife Helene and his young daughter Elsbeth.

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A quiet life.

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[chickens clucking]

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Paula, however, could not keep still.

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She was an active, dynamic woman, fascinated by the body;

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not just her own but that of other women too.

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[flamenco music]

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[pencil scratching]

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She had very soon completed her first self-portraits.

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[dramatic music]

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She was obsessed with faces and nudes.

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[dramatic music]

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Her sketches were simple,

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distilling the essence of her subject.

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Her style was unrefined.

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[dramatic music]

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She gazed without judgment at the poor, the old, children,

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but also motherhood, a subject which troubled her.

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\"I drew a young woman with a baby at her breast,

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\"sitting outside her smoking hut.

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\"If only, just once, I could paint exactly how I feel.\"

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In 1899, barely a month after arriving,

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Paula and a friend held an exhibition at Bremen\'s Museum

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of Fine Art, showing two landscapes and seven studies.

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[dramatic piano music]
[people murmuring]

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The critics were merciless.

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Some spoke of feeling nauseous

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when looking at her paintings.

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[dramatic music]
[film reel whirring]

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Paula was devastated.

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\"I am now living through a strange period,

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\"maybe the most serious one of my short life.

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\"I feel as if I frighten people, but I must go on.

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\"I have no right to turn back.\"

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[clock ticking]

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Paris, January 1st, 1900.

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A symbolic date which heralded a new start for Paula.

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A new century was hers for the taking.

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She moved into a modest room in the Rue Campagne-Premiere.

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[dramatic music]

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She ate only one meal a day and did not heat her lodgings.

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All of her money was saved for painting classes.

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[dramatic music]

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One January morning, Paula went into an art dealer\'s.

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Her eyes locked onto the work

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of the as yet unknown Paul Cézanne.

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[gentle guitar music]

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She discovered the Impressionists.

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Their purified style resonated with her own work.

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[gentle guitar music]

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She pleaded with Otto Modersohn to come

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and discover this new artistic movement,

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but he declined; his wife was unwell.

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Paula was insistent.

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He relented.

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[gentle piano music]

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It was, after all, the Universal Exhibition.

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The Universal Exhibition was very prestigious,

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attracting visitors from all over the world.

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Otto arrived in Paris in June 1900.

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[people cheering]

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[gentle music]

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He and Paula visited museums and galleries.

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Paula was happy.

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Together, they immersed themselves

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in the effervescent artistic world of the Paris avant-garde.

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[people laughing]

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But just three days after his arrival, Otto got a shock.

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[dramatic music]

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A telegram arrived telling him

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that his wife Helene had died of tuberculosis.

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[dramatic music]

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He left that night to be beside his daughter Elsbeth.

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[thunder rumbling]

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[rain pattering]

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\"This cruel fate has come down

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\"upon me so suddenly, in the middle of a happy

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\"and serene period, like a bolt of lightning,

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\"bringing with it the deepest grief.

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[melancholic music]

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\"For all of these years there had been a center

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\"to my life around which the world turned.

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\"I am now feeling how painful this loss is for me.\"

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[melancholic music]

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[train horn blares]

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Paula Becker also decided

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to return to Worpswede.

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[fireworks exploding]

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[gentle guitar music]

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Three months after Helene\'s death, Paula

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and Otto finally admitted their feelings for each other.

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[gentle guitar music]

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They married the following year.

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[camera snaps]

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[gentle guitar music]

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Otto was an attentive husband.

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He set up a small workshop close

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to their home, and employed a maid

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so that his wife could devote herself entirely

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to her painting.

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[gentle guitar music]

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[child giggling]

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Paula was delighted by her new family life

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alongside her husband and little Elsbeth.

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[gentle guitar music]

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[camera snaps]

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[birds chirping]
[pencil scratching]

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\"This is a study of Elsbeth I\'ve painted.

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\"I feel that other positive things

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\"that I didn\'t know about this winter will follow this work.

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[birds chirping]
[tango music]

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\"Otto and I love each other very much.

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\"Each of us speaks of the other\'s art before their own.\"

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[tango music]

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Paula and Otto both kept a journal.

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They drew each other, painted each other.

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Their creations responded to one another,

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blended with one another.

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Under Paula\'s influence, Otto started painting people.

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He was seeking a more natural style,

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and enriched his color palette.

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She painted landscapes and signed

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with her new name, PMB: Paula Modersohn Becker.

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[gentle music]

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\"Our mutual exchange is wonderful.

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\"I feel as if I am learning from and with her.

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\"Our relationship is wonderful,

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\"better than I had dared to hope for.

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\"I am truly happy.

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\"She\'s a true artist,

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\"of whom there are very few in the world.

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\"She has something rare.

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\"Nobody knows her.

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\"Nobody values her.

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\"But that is all going to change.\"

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[train horn honks]

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[gentle piano music]

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1903.

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Paula was now 27.

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She traveled back and forth to Paris,

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making even longer increasingly frequent trips.

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Otto went with her, but was unable to work.

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There was too much commotion and too much noise.

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The city exhausted him.

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[gentle piano music]

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Paula, on the other hand, thrived in this fertile ambiance.

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Her need for new inspiration was insatiable.

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She visited the Louvre,

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and discovered the Egyptian portraits of Faiyum.

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The faces, painted 1,800 years before, stunned her.

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Paula\'s paintings reveal a similar simplicity

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of expressions.

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[gentle piano music]
[pencil scratching]

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[birds chirping]

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[tango music]

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Nature, nudity and Paula\'s sheer madness.

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What Paula sought each time she returned to the bosom

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of the Worpswede artistic community was simplicity.

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[birds chirping]
[tango music]

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The young woman would exercise in the country, naked,

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and Otto would draw her.

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[birds chirping]
[tango music]

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But this happy melody harbored a wrong note.

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[thudding]

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[tree creaking]

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[dramatic music]

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The couple\'s union had still not been consummated.

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Paula was losing patience.

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[dramatic music]

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\"I have lived by his side for five years

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\"without him making a wife of me.

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\"It\'s torture.\"

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[dramatic music]

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Worpswede was a decreasingly

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fertile feeding ground for her creativity.

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A profound desire to become \"somebody\" was growing

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within her, like an obsession.

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On the morning of the 23rd of February 1906,

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Otto found a letter on the table.

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\"I am now starting a new life.

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\"Do not interfere, let me be myself.

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\"It is so wonderful.\"

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[melancholic guitar music]

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This new separation was a definitive break-up.

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For Otto, the loss was too much.

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[glass crashing]

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[bird cawing]
[rain pattering]

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[melancholic music]

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\"My dearest Paula,

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\"My days are dark and heavy.

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\"There are two things that have led to your decision:

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\"sexual frustration, and alienation.\"

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[dramatic music]

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[paper rustling]

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Otto sent her an avalanche

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of anguished letters, unable to bring himself

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to cut all ties.

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He tried everything in his power to get her back.

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He sent her money regularly.

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Paula was still unable to sell any of her paintings.

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[car horn honking]

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[dramatic music]

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And yet, in her Paris workshop,

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Paula Modersohn Becker was a fountain of ideas.

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[dramatic music]

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[clock ticking]

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She kept producing paintings, lived among her canvases.

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She would get up in the night to study them

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in the half-light, and then touch them up in the morning.

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[dramatic music]

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In 1906 alone, Paula completed over 80 paintings

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in her cluttered workshop, [camera snaps]

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including 20 self-portraits.

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[camera snaps]

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[dramatic music]

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Among them, one of her greatest works:

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\"Self-portrait on her sixth wedding anniversary\".

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[gentle music]
[pencil scratching]

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This enigmatic painting shows Paula nude, her belly round.

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This self-portrait was a first in the history of art.

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[camera snaps]

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But the artist was not pregnant in 1906,

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and had been married to Otto for just five years.

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[dramatic music]

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This famous work was anathema to the image

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of the fantasy woman as object of desire painted

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by her male counterparts.

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[dramatic music]

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Paula suggested a modern vision of women,

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and emancipated herself from the codes of the time.

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\"I no longer know with which name to sign.

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\"I am not Modersohn and I am no longer Paula Becker.

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\"I am myself, and hope to become more and more so.\"

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[dramatic music]

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She no longer set herself any limitations.

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[dramatic music]

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Cubism caught her eye.

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[dramatic music]

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Her focal points multiplied.

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[dramatic music]

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But after a year of intense creativity, Paula was exhausted.

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[dramatic music]
[film reel whirring]

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She ended up asking Otto to join her.

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Once more, he acquiesced.

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[birds chirping]
[tango music]

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October 1906.

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Otto returned to Paris

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and spent the whole winter with Paula.

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[dramatic music]
[film reel whirring]

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The two artists found a new stability,

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albeit in separate workshops.

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[dramatic music]
[film reel whirring]

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They drew each other, just as they had at the beginning.

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[dramatic music]
[pencil scratching]

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Once again shared the pleasures of creation,

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and now those of physical love.

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[dramatic music]

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[birds chirping]

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In spring, the couple returned to Worpswede.

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Paula was expecting a baby.

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[dramatic music]

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Alone in the tranquility of her workshop,

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she spent her days painting,

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with her customary fervor and urgency.

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[gentle music]

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[baby crying]

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On the 2nd of November 1907, Paula gave birth

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to a little girl, Mathilde, after a difficult labor.

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[baby crying]

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She was exhausted, and had to stay in bed.

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[dramatic piano music]

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18 days later, there was to be a party

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to celebrate the joyful event.

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[dramatic piano music]

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Paula finally left her bed.

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Just a few minutes later, she died,

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struck down by a blood clot in the lung.

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[dramatic music]

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Those close to her then found her private diary,

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in which she had written, at the age of 24:

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\"I know that I will not live for long.

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\"But is that really so sad?

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\"Is a party better because it\'s longer?

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\"My life is a party, a short and intense party.

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\"And if love can blossom within me for a while

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\"before flying away, and helps me

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\"to create three good paintings in my life,

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\"I shall gladly leave, flowers in my hand and in my hair.\"

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She passed away at the age of 31,

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with flowers in her hair.

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She had sold only three paintings in her lifetime.

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[melancholic piano music]
[wind howling]

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After Paula\'s death, Otto left Worpswede for good.

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[wind howling]

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He would remarry a year later, and have two sons.

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[gentle piano music]

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Otto Modersohn died in 1943.

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His work was gradually forgotten,

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while Paula\'s became part of the history of art.

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[people murmuring]

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[melancholic piano music]

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In eight years, Paula Modersohn Becker painted

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over 750 works, and drew 1,000 sketches.

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She\'s one of the great figures of modern art.

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In Bremen, in 1927, a museum was dedicated to her,

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the first in the world dedicated to a female artist.

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[gentle piano music]

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[whimsical music]