Landschaft mit Birken, im Hintergrund zwei Hausgiebel . Um 1900. Oil on paper, on cardboard. 54.8 x 40.5 cm (21.5 x 15.9 in). With a fragment of a confirmation of authenticity by Prof. Dr. Emil Waldmann, Kunsthalle Bremen, from August 2, 1922, pasted on the reverse and with a stamp of Kunsthalle Bremen (Lugt L. 294). • Her unique reduction to the essential makes Modersohn-Becker an important representative of early Expressionism. • In 1900 she visited Paris for the first time and became acquainted with the reduced yet monumental formal language of Cézanne, van Gogh and Gauguin. • In the solitude of the Worpswede landscape, she processed the newly gained impressions. • The artist"s works are in important international collections like the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Kunstmuseum Basel .