page_title: Otto Modersohn
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Otto Modersohn / Work
caption_attribution_description: Dorfstraße im Frühling
context_page_description: Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Modersohn was a German landscape painter. He was a co-founder of the Art Colony at Worpswede.
context_section_description: From 1874 to 1889, he concentrated on small-scale studies and landscapes, painted directly from nature in the Plein Air style of the Barbizon School. After 1889, his search for a truly natural style led gradually to more colorful canvases. Around 1900, he and several other Worpswede artists began doing illustrations and designs for Stollwerck, the German chocolate company.
  Artistic interaction with his second wife, Paula, led to the development of a style emphasizing simplicity and humanity, expressed in their maxim "Das Ding an sich in Stimmung" (roughly, "The thing-in-itself in the mood/feeling"). Although his wife's subject matter was vastly different, he considered her work a complement to his.
  After World War II, a Modersohn Museum was established in Gailenberg and later relocated to Fischerhude. Another Otto Modersohn Museum showcasing his early work in Westphalia opened in Tecklenburg in 2015.
caption: Village Street in Spring (1922)
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