The Modersohn-Becker/Rilke Correspondence

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 MagazinePraise 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

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.