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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810115670
• ISBN13: 9780810115675
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"