Baladine Klossowska

Baladine Klossowska (Polish: Balladyna Kłossowska, born 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 her marriage, she changed her first name to Baladine (after 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 had divorced her husband and settled in Switzerland, first in Bern, then in Geneva with her two sons. In 1922 she came to Berlin with the sons, and in 1924 she was dependent on the material help of her friends in Paris, where she lived in poverty.

In 1919 she had met the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Her passionate liaison lasted until the death of the poet in 1926.

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