In 1889 Otto Modersohn (1856-1943) was one of the founding members of the artist colony in Worpswede near Bremen. On a visit from his native Westphalia he had fallen in love with this mystic North German landscape. “So weit und gross wie am Meer” (As open and great as by the sea) he marveled. Here he found his subjects' pleinair, away from urban centers and academic studies; he...