Baladine Klossowska | |
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![]() Klossowska (with Rilke) c. 1923 | |
Born | Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro 21 October 1886 |
Died | 21 October 1969 | (aged 83)
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Partner(s) | Rainer Maria Rilke (1919–1926, his death) |
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Baladine Klossowska or Kłossowska (21 October 1886 – 11 September 1969) was a German painter. Originating from an artistic Jewish family with roots in Lithuania, she moved from Breslau, Germany, to Paris, France, at the turn of the 20th century, where she was a vivid and active participant in the explosion of artistic experiment then active in the city.
She was mother to controversial modernist painter Balthus[1] as well as the writer Pierre Klossowski,[2] and the final muse and love of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.[3]