![]() ![]() Although his job as Rodin's private secretary ended in a quarrel, Rilke never ceased to acknowledge the very direct inspiration he received from close daily contact with the sculptor. For the next few years, Rilke's attention was centered on Paris and on Auguste Rodin, to whose work he devoted a monograph in 1903. ![]() They had a daughter, but the short-lived marriage was only an interlude in Rilke's essentially solitary and unsettled life. On his return Rilke joined an art colony in Worpswede near Bremen, and early in 1901 he married the sculptress Clara Westhoff, one of its members. During the second of these journeys he met Lev Tolstoy. ![]() Desultory studies, mainly in the history of art, at the universities of Prague, Munich, and Berlin were followed by two journeys to Russia in 18 in the company of Lou Andreas-Salom é, a German-Russian to whom Friedrich Nietzsche had proposed marriage and who later became a follower and friend of Sigmund Freud. His first volume of poetry, Leben und Lieder, appeared in Prague in 1895. The years 1886 –1891, which Rilke spent at military academies in Moravia and Austria, had a traumatic effect on him, and not until 1920 was he able to come to terms with his unhappy childhood and family background. His mother, who was of upper-middle-class origin, encouraged him in his early ambition to become a poet. ![]() The German poet Rainer Maria (Ren é) Rilke was born in Prague, the son of a minor railway official. ![]()
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