Illuminated manuscript of Rilke's Marienleben, and photograph, ca. 1913-1940.

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Illuminated manuscript of Rilke's Marienleben, and photograph, ca. 1913-1940.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49014730

The collection contains thirty illuminated manuscript pages for Rainer Maria Rilke's Marienleben (1912), a poetic cycle on the life of Mary. Each page represents one event in the life of Mary; each is headed by a decorated initial. Also includes a photographic postcard of Stich, holding an umbrella, standing next to a religious monumental obelisk.

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7602009

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Marie, Sainte Vierge

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Stich, Amelie Marie

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Amelie Marie Stich attended the Künstschule für Frauen und Mädchen in Vienna. She never exhibited her work in public. She worked for a time with the editors of a local Franciscan journal. Stich died in the 1940s. From the description of Illuminated manuscript of Rilke's Marienleben, and photograph, ca. 1913-1940. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49014730 ...

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926

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Rilke wrote to Werfel in 1913 after reading Werfel's first 2 books of poems, Der Weltfreund and Wir sind. They met for the first time in the same year. Ruth Siebe-Rilke was the daughter of Rilke and Clara Westhoff; here she signs her name Ruth Fritzsche-Rilke. She was at that time the administrator of the Rilke family archive, located in Fischerhude, near Bremen, Germany. (More recently the archive has been located in Gernsbach.) From the description of Correspondence with Franz Werf...