Paula Modersohn-Becker: The Letters and Journals
by Paula Modersohn-Becker
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These rare documents chronicle the developing persona of the young woman Expressionist painter at the turn of the century, struggling to resolve the conflict between what she demanded of herself as an artist and what society expected of her as a married woman. Radycki provides an intriguing guide to the art capitals of Berlin, London, and Paris through the eyes of a woman studying art there and through contemporary sources that describe the artistic milieu and the status of women in 1900. We show more view the changing relationships between Becker and her friends, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Clara Westhoff (the sculptor who married Rilke), and her husband, the painter Otto Modersohn. The letters begin when Becker is in art school and end within a month of her tragic death in 1907 at age thirty-one. The epilogue includes Rilke's intense "Requiem" of 1908, translated by Lilly Engler and Adrienne Rich and never before published and Rich's own moving "Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff." show lessTags
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This is the definite edition today of Paula Modersohn-Becker’s letters and diary entries. It is based on (i) 3 older publications, among them Paula Modersohn-Becker: Briefe und Tagebuchblätter (1917 and many subsequent editions, ed.: Sophie Dorothee Gallwitz *), expanded and supplemented by (ii) her entire unpublished writings: further letters to family and friends and notes, (iii) excerpts of letters and notes by Otto Modersohn, Rilke and family members and (iv) criticism published 1899 and 1906. This edition thus opens new perspectives on the artist, her work, her artistic aims, her personality and relationships. The editing is exemplary.
* I reviewed this in some detail (http://www.librarything.com/review/179768025)
This book show more needs to be consulted by all who want to engage intensively with the work and personality of Paula Modersohn-Becker. (It is this edition on which Brigitte Uhde-Stahl bases her detailed assessment of PMB’s work. ) (VI-20) show less
* I reviewed this in some detail (http://www.librarything.com/review/179768025)
This book show more needs to be consulted by all who want to engage intensively with the work and personality of Paula Modersohn-Becker. (It is this edition on which Brigitte Uhde-Stahl bases her detailed assessment of PMB’s work. ) (VI-20) show less
Translated from a heavily edited edition of Modersohn-Beckers letters and journals.
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