Mentors & Teachers of Rainer Maria Rilke: Jens-Peter Jacobsen & Paul Cézanne

Wednesday, July 24, 2024; 4 - 5:30pm

Located in the Auditorium at SebArts

The young poet Rainer Maria Rilke had much to learn as he set off on his inward journey. Join Dr. Jon Jackson and follow Rilke as he meets the mentors who taught him how to be a poet, a lover, an artist, and how to live one’s life in the world. These are Lou Andreas-Salomé, Auguste Rodin, Jens-Peter Jacobsen, and Paul Cézanne. Rilke will come to life in these exciting and interactive in-person presentations. You are welcome to come to one or all.

Jens-Peter Jacobsen & Paul Cézanne

These two mentors influenced and changed Rilke profoundly. Danish writer, poet, and botanist Jens-Peter Jacobsen was a pioneer in writing about nature in literature. He looms large in Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. Paul Cézanne’s groundbreaking paintings and colors overwhelmed Rilke and became the subject of numerous letters from Rilke to his wife in 1907. Dr. Jon Jackson shows you how these life mentors significantly changed Rilke. Come join this in-person and interactive presentation.

About the Instructor: Dr. Jon Jackson is a retired neuropsychiatrist and an award-winning poet. He teaches courses on the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and on A Psychological Approach to the Old Testament. He leads an online reading group on the works of Lou Andreas-Salome that is sponsored by the SF Jung Institute. He has also taught at Sonoma State University and at Creativity & Madness in Santa Fe, NM.