portrait of Rilke.
One of the most well-known German female artists
at the beginning of the 20th century, Modersohn-Becker
was, like Rilke's wife, Clara, a central figure at the artist's
colony at Worpswede in the north of Germany.
Modersohn-Becker died tragically three weeks after giving
birth to her first child. It was this loss of one of his closest
friends, that moved Rilke to write his hauntingly beautiful
Requiem.
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