Paula Modersohn-Becker stands as one of the foremost celebrated German painters of the early modernist movement. The portrait of the young woman was created in the artists’ colony of Worpswede. It depicts the simplicity of rural life while paying tribute to the individuality of the person portrayed. With slightly tilted head and shadowed eyes, the sitter looks directly at the viewer. Her face is mask-like. Her plaid blouse and pink apron depart from the illusionistic perspective of academic painting into the flatness of abstraction. In the background, the landscape with trees appears as painted diamonds and diagonals. With this early work, Modersohn-Becker experimented with the possibilities of figurative representation and paved the way to modernism.