AUS DER SAMMLUNG NEUE RÄUME IM KUNSTMUSEUM: WORPSWEDE Eröffnung & Lesung aus dem Briefwechsel von Paula Modersohn-Becker und Otto Modersohn

Opening & Reading from the Correspondence Between Paula Modersohn-Becker and Otto Modersohn

Tuesday, August 18, 2026, 6:00 p.m.

We cordially invite you to the opening of three newly curated galleries as part of the“From the Collection”series. The focus is on works by Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Modersohn, Fritz Overbeck, and Heinrich Vogeler. We will welcome Antje Modersohn to the opening with introductory remarks.

This will be followed by a reading from the correspondence between Paula Modersohn-Becker and Otto Modersohn.

With the publication of previously unpublished letters, diaries, and postcards by Otto Modersohn, this edition from Insel Verlag establishes, for the first time, a dialogue between the voices of both artists. Edited by Antje Modersohn and Wolfgang Werner, in collaboration with the Paula Modersohn-Becker Foundation and the Otto Modersohn Foundation, it offers insights into the shared life and intellectual world of the artist couple. The correspondence spans the years 1895 to 1908 and traces their relationship, their artistic development, and their passion for art through authentic sources.

Actress Verena Güntner and actor Robert Levin, who have been studying these texts for many years, will read selected passages from the correspondence.

Registration
Since seating is limited, please register by Friday, August 14, 2026, atvermittlung@kunsthalle-museum-bremerhaven.de. Thank you!

Cast
Verena Güntner studied acting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and has performed at the Theater Bremen, among other venues. She has worked for many years as an actress and voice actress and played the title role in the ARTE film *Paula Modersohn Becker – Geschichte einer Malerin*. She has also provided the voice of Paula Modersohn-Becker in several documentary films. She has received numerous awards as an author as well.

Robert Levinstudied acting at the Bern University of the Arts and has been working since 1998 as a voice-over artist for radio, documentaries, film, and dubbing. In Carlo Modersohn’s documentary *So weit und groß – Die Natur des Otto Modersohn* (*So Far and So Great – The Nature of Otto Modersohn*), he provides the voice of Otto Modersohn.

Antje Modersohn, the granddaughter from Otto Modersohn’s third marriage to Louise Breling, studied art history and has played a key role for decades in establishing the Otto Modersohn Museum and Archive in Fischerhude. She serves on the boards of the Otto Modersohn Foundation and the Paula Modersohn-Becker Foundation and is co-editor of the correspondence between Paula Modersohn-Becker and Otto Modersohn.

Free admission.
Photographs will be taken during the event