Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker

by Eric Torgersen

Book Overview

In 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote "Requiem for a Friend" in memory of Paula Modersohn-Becker, the German painter who had profoundly affected him and who had died a year earlier. Although a great modern painter, Modersohn-Becker is remembered primarily as she is portrayed in Rilke's poem. Dear Friend looks at the relationship of two great artists whose often-strained friendship was extraordinary for both.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081011819X
• ISBN13: 9780810118195
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"