Sigbjørn Obstfelder
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Sigbjørn Obstfelder was a 19th-century Norwegian writer and poet.
Obstfelder in 1900
Obstfelder lithograph by Edvard Munch.
Obstfelder's bust in the Frederiksberg Ældre Kirkegård
Cover of Obstfelder's Digte
Rainer Maria Rilke
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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the
Sigbjørn Obstfelder
…Samtiden in 1896. Additionally, Munch was mysteriously in possession of some of Obstfelder's manuscripts. Obstfelder was a source of inspiration for Rainer Maria Rilke's work The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Although known more for his poems, Obstfelder also wrote and published prose works. His first published…
Rilke in 1900
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), an early expressionist painter, became acquainted with Rilke in Worpswede and Paris, and painted his portrait in 1906.
Duino Castle near Trieste, Italy, 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.
Château de Muzot in Veyras, Switzerland, was where Rilke completed writing the Duino Elegies in "a savage creative storm" in February 1922.