Clara Westhoff | German sculptor | Britannica (original) (raw)

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association with Modersohn-Becker

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  In Paula Modersohn-Becker
  …a friendship with the sculptor Clara Westhoff (who later married the poet Rainer Maria Rilke), and in 1900 they traveled together to Paris, where she was influenced by the Post-Impressionist paintings of Paul Cézanne.
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contribution to Worpswede school

• In Worpswede school
  Clara Westoff, a talented sculptor, also worked at Worpswede, where she met the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whom she married in 1901. Two years later Rilke published a book, Worpswede, discussing the artists and the landscape.
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marriage to Rilke

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  In Rainer Maria Rilke: Maturity.
  In April 1901 he married Clara Westhoff, a young sculptor from Bremen who had studied with Auguste Rodin. The couple set up housekeeping in a farm cottage in nearby Westerwede. There Rilke worked on the second part of the Stunden-Buch and also wrote a book about the Worpswede colony. In…
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