Otto Modersohn

On the one hand, he is considered to be “the” painter of Worpswede. On the other hand, his name is closely connected to that of his wife, the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died young. Looking beyond these two seminal aspects of the painter’s life, the author presents Otto Modersohn as an artist whose multifaceted oeuvre had a lasting effect on the development of German landscape painting.