Word: przybyszewski
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...appears as a flaming, enigmatic image throughout Munch's work was a young Norwegian girl named Dagney Juell. She was Munch's model in Berlin before she moved over to live with Swedish Dramatist August Strindberg, finally married the best friend of both men, Polish Poet Stanislas Przybyszewski. One of Munch's most powerful paintings of the redhead was Jeatiousy, in which he depicted her as a salacious wanton, with an enigmatic, glowering father at left. Between the two, man-depicted as Poet Przybyszewski-is held transfixed in agonized suspension. Even more ruthless is Munch...
...sweltering Paris room, holding an uncorked vial of potassium cyanide and reading The Pleasure of Dying. No sooner had he decided that it was not yet his time to taste this pleasure after all, than he became suddenly convinced that a former friend, the Polish writer, Stanislaw Przybyszewski, was trying to kill him by filtering poison gas through the walls of his room. He fled, writing to a friend to take care of his remains if he were killed, since he did not wish to be cut up by medical students. "The cheapest is cremation (50 francs)," he advised...
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