Head of a Woman (Frauenkopf)
1935 · Watercolor and pencil on paper
19 x 15 3/8" (48.3 x 39.1 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Paul Kleinschmidt
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The Expressionist Idiom
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985
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Recent Acquisitions, 1968�1973
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973
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Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1932
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German Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1931
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Paul Kleinschmidt was a German painter whose portraits and interior scenes merged Expressionist color intensity with figurative modernism. Active in Berlin and the Rhineland during the early twentieth century, he developed a distinctive approach marked by bold palette and psychological depth. His work bridged the gap between pure abstraction and narrative figuration, establishing him as a significant voice in Weimar-era painting.
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Museum of Modern Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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