The Paula Modersohn-Becker House in the Böttcherstrasse was established in 1927 by Ludwig Roselius as the first museum in the world dedicated to a female artist. Modersohn-Becker worked in the Worpswede artists' colony north of Bremen in the early 1900s, and her painting — influenced by Cézanne and Gauguin but deeply personal — was decades ahead of its time. The museum holds the largest collection of her work, including the famous nude self-portrait.
The building is part of the expressionist Böttcherstrasse complex. The collection includes paintings, drawings, and letters that give a good sense of the artist's short but extraordinarily productive life. Worth combining with the adjacent Roselius House.