Diane Radycki's "Paula Modersohn-Becker," the movie

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist by Diane Radycki.

The entry begins:

Main characters:

1) the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907);

2) her best friend the sculptor Clara Westhoff (1878-1954);

3) Clara’s husband, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926); and

4) Paula’s husband, the landscape painter Otto Modersohn (1865-1943).

Setting: the turn of the century, an artist colony in the north German moors and the artist quarter of Montparnasse in Paris.

On Saturday May 18, 2013 at my book party I asked my guests to help cast the book as a film. Here are some of the suggestions:

BB writes, “Susan Sarandon for Clara! Christophe Waltz for Otto.”

Barbara K writes, “Cast doesn’t matter as long as the 3-D glasses work well.”

Beverly S writes, “Barbara...[read on]

Learn more about Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist at the Yale University Press website.

My Book, The Movie: Paula Modersohn-Becker.

--Marshal Zeringue