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title: "Artistic freedom despite marriage"
date: 2021-10-24
last_modified: 2025-02-26T16:27:07+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-18T16:43:28Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/artistic-freedom-despite-marriage-paula-modersohn-becker-2021-context-en/"
description: "At the beginning of the 20th century, bourgeois marriage was considered the ideal. Paula Modersohn-Becker and Charlotte Berend-Corinth are rare examples of how women artists nevertheless managed to maintain their independence."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/header_Schirn_Presse_Header_Selbstbildnis_mit_rotem_Kranz_Niedersaechsisches_Landesmuseum_Hannover_offiziell.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Artistic freedom despite marriage