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Paula Modersohn-Becker Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker , 1876-1907, German painter. After studying in London and Berlin, she was greatly influenced by her experience at Worpswede, an artists' colony where she lived from 1898 to 1900. There she met Otto Modersohn, whom she married, and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke . Rilke wrote a... Read more
Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke , 1875-1926, German poet, b. Prague, the greatest lyric poet of modern Germany. Life Rilke's youth at military and business school was not happy. His relations with his father were difficult, and he was able to attend the Univ. of Prague only with the help of an uncle. Married... Read more
Worpswede Worpswede
Worpswede. A north German village near Bremen that in the last decade of the 19th century became the centre of a group of artists who settled there, following the example of the Barbizon School in France. The most famous artist of the group was Paula Modersohn-Becker, and the ‘Worpswede... Read more
Lou Andreas-Salome Lou Andreas-Salome
Lou Andreas-Salomé Russian-born German writer Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) has been known mostly as the lover of and inspiration to several of the most prominent male German authors of her time, including philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and psychoanalytic... Read more
Paul Celan Paul Celan
Paul Celan , pseud. of Paul Antschel , 1920-70, Romanian-French poet. Although he spent his early years in Romania and his later years in France, Celan wrote in German and is widely considered the greatest postwar poet in Europe. A Jew, who lost both parents in a Nazi camp, he composed works that... Read more
William Howard Gass William Howard Gass
William Howard Gass 1924-, American author, b. Fargo, N.Dak., grad. Kenyon College, 1947; Ph.D. Cornell, 1954. In 1969 he became a professor of philosophy at Washington Univ., St. Louis. Rejecting traditional realism and interested in experimenting with the novel's form, he has been compared to... Read more
lyric lyric
lyric in ancient Greece, a poem accompanied by a musical instrument, usually a lyre. Although the word is still often used to refer to the songlike quality in poetry, it is more generally used to refer to any short poem that expresses a personal emotion, be it a sonnet, ode, song, or elegy. In... Read more
Prague Prague
Prague , Czech Praha, Ger. Prag, city (1993 pop. 1,216,500), capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and former capital of Czechoslovakia , on both banks of the Vltava (Ger. Moldau ) River. A road, rail, and air transportation hub, the city also has an inland harbor that is the... Read more
Rainer Rainer
Rainer (or Renier of Huy). Mosan metalworker active in the early 12th century. Nothing is known of his life, but in a 14th-century chronicle he is credited with one of the great masterpieces of his period—a bronze font (1107–18) originally made for Notre-Dame des Fonts, Liège,... Read more
life preserver life preserver
life preserver a personal flotation device (PFD) intended to keep the wearer afloat, particularly in case of shipwreck. A Type I PFD will keep even unconscious people afloat in a face-up position; it is the most common type used at sea. Another common type, developed during World War II for fliers... Read more

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