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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Artist's studio ca. 1905-1907 drawing, watercolor, body-color British Museum |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Reclining female nude 1905 woodcut British Museum |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Nudes standing by stove 1908 oil on canvas Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner On the tramway 1908 lithograph British Museum |
"Judging by his letters and diaries, Rilke spent his life "waiting" for the lyric and sharing that waiting with various women, most of them aristocratic (at least in name and behaviour) and happy to give him shelter in their various castles and properties so that he could wait more comfortably. He nursed amorous or merely friendly passions for the seductive Lou Andreas-Salomé, the desperate Eleonora Duse, Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, Baladine Klossowska, Baroness Sidonie Nádherny de Borutin, Mathilde Vollmöller-Purrmann, Contessina Pia Valmarana, the pianist Magda von Hattingberg, the Swedish writer Ellen Key, Countess Manon zu Solms-Laubach, Eva Cassirer-Solmitz, Baroness Alice Fähndrich von Nordeck zur Rabenau, Katharina von Düring Kippenberg, Elisabeth Gundolf-Salomon, Nanny Wunderly-Volkart, Countess Margot Sizzo-Noris Crouy, a certain Mimi in Venice, and, naturally, the Countess and Poetess de Noailles, daughter of Prince Bassaraba de Brancovan, and not forgetting, of course, the Princess Cantacuzène. This list appears or deserves to be false, but it is not . . ."
– from the essay on Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) in Written Lives by Javier Marías, translated from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa (New York: New Directions, 2006)
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Three nudes in the studio 1909 drawing British Museum |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Three bathers at Moritzburg lakes 1909 drypoint British Museum |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Akt in tub with necklace 1909 etching British Museum |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Standing nude with hat 1910 oil on canvas Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Women bathing between white stones 1912 color woodcut British Museum |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Standing nude in tub 1914 drawing, colored chalks British Museum |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Sidewalk in front of cafe 1914 color lithograph British Museum |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Portrait of Otto Müller 1915 color woodcut British Museum |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Alpine landscape by moonlight at Stafel 1918 woodcut British Museum |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Mountain forest path 1919 oil on canvas Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany |