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title: "The first urban flight"
date: 2021-12-08
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/the-first-urban-flight-paula-modersohn-becker-2021-context-en/"
description: "Lebensreform, freedom and rural idyll: Paula Modersohn-Becker was not the only one to live in one of the rural art colonies that sprang up throughout Europe in the 19th century. To this day, many of these places have cult status."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/header_Havemann_Abb_1_Malwerker_auf_dem_Weg_zum_Motiv.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# The first urban flight