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Baladine Klossowska

Baladine Klossowska
Klossowska (with Rilke) c. 1923
Born
Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro

(1886-10-21)21 October 1886
Breslau, German Empire
Died21 October 1969(1969-10-21) (aged 83)
Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine near Paris, France
Spouse
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(m. 1902; sep. 1917)​
Partner(s)Rainer Maria Rilke
(1919–1926, his death)
Children

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]

  1. ^ Jean Clair, Balthus, London, Thames & Hudson, 2001.
  2. ^ Anthony Spira and Sarah Wilson, Pierre Klossowski, Ostfildern, Germany, Hatje Cantz, 2006.
  3. ^ Ralph Freedman, Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke, Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, 1998.

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