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The painter Paula Modersohn-Becker and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke were two of the most talented and original creative artists at work in early twentieth-century Europe. They enjoyed a close friendship that left in its wake a remarkable series of letters. Encompassing topics such as art, literature, and the nature of marriage, their correspondence testifies to both writers' brilliant descriptive gifts and penetrating social intelligence. Brought together in English for the first time, the letters that Modersohn-Becker and Rilke sent to one another provide a fascinating view of everyday life during an exceptionally fertile and exciting period of cultural production.

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The Modersohn-Becker/Rilke Correspondence thus resurrects Modersohn-Becker from the annals of Rilke’s poetry, lifting her out of and separating her from the poet’s own views, and, whilst not able to grant her a response to Rilke’s ode, reveals a tender and fruitful friendship, filled with the disagreements that were at the very heart of each of the artists’ projects. -- Iona Tait * Asymptote * Praise for Paula Modersohn-Becker: “Among the painters, along with Picasso and Matisse, who created modernism in the first years of the twentieth century.” -- John Colapinto, The New Yorker “[A] brilliant early twentieth century painter.” -- Sheila Heti, The Brooklyn Rail “Extraordinary.” -- Sue Hubbard, The London Magazine Praise for Rainer Maria Rilke: “Rilke unquestionably is one of the essential poets who wrote in German during the twentieth century.” -- Harold Bloom “The poetry he left behind is priceless.” -- John Banville, The New York Review of Books

Praise for Paula Modersohn-Becker: “Among the painters, along with Picasso and Matisse, who created modernism in the first years of the twentieth century.” -- John Colapinto, The New Yorker “[A] brilliant early twentieth century painter.” -- Sheila Heti, The Brooklyn Rail “Extraordinary.” -- Sue Hubbard, The London Magazine Praise for Rainer Maria Rilke: “Rilke unquestionably is one of the essential poets who wrote in German during the twentieth century.” -- Harold Bloom “The poetry he left behind is priceless.” -- John Banville, The New York Review of Books

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Jill Lloyd (Edited by) Jill Lloyd is an art historian and curator. She has co-edited numerous exhibition catalogues and is the author of German Expressionism, Primitivism and Modernity and The Undiscovered Expressionist: A Life of Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky.

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