Lesley Chamberlain

Oct 9, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Lesley Chamberlain |Anthony Head |Lily Herd |E. K. Myerson

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke met the painter Paula Becker in the summer of 1900. He had come to Worpswede, a village in north Germany, to join the small, vibrant artistic community established there in 1889. Both were twenty-four, and ambitious artists. The group spent an enchanted summer talking about art and drinking wine. But in October Rilke felt the need for “the big city” and returned to Berlin. So a correspondence began.

Jul 24, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Lesley Chamberlain

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Sep 29, 2023 | ft.com | Lesley Chamberlain

It began in 1837 with an invitation to Immanuel Nobel to put his industrial genius at the service of the Russian government.