Baladine Klossowska
Baladine Klossowska ( Polish : Balladyna Kłossowska, née Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro, * 1886 in Breslau , † 1969 in Paris ) was a painter. She was the daughter of the cantor of the Breslau Synagogue to the White Stork , Abraham Baer Spiro (1833-1903), sister of the painter Eugene Spiro (1874-1972), mother of the painter Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski, 1908-2001) and the painter and writer Pierre Klossowski (1905–2001), wife of the painter and art historian Erich Klossowski (1875–1949). After the marriage she changed her first name to Baladine (based on a drama by Juliusz Słowacki ) and moved to Paris. There she gave birth to her two sons.
After the outbreak of the Second World War , she had to leave France as a German citizen. In 1917 she divorced her husband and settled in Switzerland, first in Bern, then in Geneva with her two sons. In 1922 she came to Berlin with her sons , in 1924 to Paris , where she lived in poverty, depending on the material help of her friends.
She met the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in 1919 . Her passionate liaison lasted until the poet's death in 1926. During this time she received financial support from Nanny Wunderly- Volkart (1878–1962).
Her final resting place is on the Cimetière parisien de Bagneux in the Paris suburb of Bagneux .
Web links
- biography
- Photograph by Klossowska and Rilke 1923
- Klossowska's Rilke portrait 1925
- Klossowska portrait painted by brother Eugene Spiro
Individual evidence
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Baladine Klossowska
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klossowska, Baladine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spiro, Elisabeth Dorothea (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1969 |
| Place of death | Paris |