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