Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Rilke in 1900 (Source: Wikimedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rainer_Maria_Rilke_1900.jpg

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  1. December 4, 1875 in Prag
  2. †
    December 29, 1926 in Sanatorium Valmont bei Montreux, Schweiz
  3. Dichter

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Rilke in 1900 (Source: Wikimedia)
Rilke, circa 1878–1879 (Source: Wikimedia)
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), an early expressionist painter, became acquainted with Rilke in Worpswede and Paris, and painted his portrait in 1906. (Source: Wikimedia)
Duino Castle near Trieste, Austria, was where Rilke began writing the Duino Elegies in 1912, recounting that he heard the famous first line as a voice in the wind while walking along the cliffs and that he wrote it quickly in his notebook. (Source: Wikimedia)
Château de Muzot in Veyras, Switzerland, was where Rilke completed writing the Duino Elegies in "a savage creative storm" in February 1922. (Source: Wikimedia)
Rilke and Klossowska at Chateau Muzot 1923. (Source: Wikimedia)
Rilke's grave in Raron, Switzerland (Source: Wikimedia)
Letters to a Young Poet, cover of the 1934 edition (Source: Wikimedia)
A portrait of Rilke painted two years after his death by Leonid Pasternak (Source: Wikimedia)

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