Children with goldfish bowl 1907

Paula Modersohn-Becker's "Children with goldfish bowl" is a powerful and moving depiction of motherhood. Painted in 1907, the year of the artist's death, the work reveals Modersohn-Becker's unique style, characterized by bold colors and simplified forms. The figure of the child, holding a tray with two fruit, is rendered with a sense of both strength and vulnerability. This painting, a masterpiece of early 20th-century Expressionism, is now housed in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, Germany.