Merely to list her legal names is to provide a choice glimpse of Germanic culture during the last century. Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel was the daughter of Emil Schindler, a highly ...
Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler. By Cate Haste.Bloomsbury; 486 pages; £26. To be published in America by Basic Books in September; $32. ALMA MAHLER was the supreme femme fatale of ...
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Alma Mahler was so much more than a wife to her famous composer husband—she was scandalous icon in her own right.
Although Alma Mahler has fallen into obscurity today, there was no one in the golden age of Vienna who didn’t know her name—and her salacious reputation. She rose to prominence as “merely” the wife of ...
John Casken’s tidy piece about the messy affair between painter Oskar Kokoschka and Mahler’s widow premiered at the Cheltenham music festival Alma Schindler, better known as Alma Mahler, was very much ...
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Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel, née Schindler (1897-1964), a privileged, highly cultured child of the Austro-Hungarian empire, has long been regarded as a mysterious figure who always appeared to be in ...
On the second page of “Passionate Spirit,” the English biographer Cate Haste runs up her flag: “I like Alma Mahler,” she declares. This statement places the author in direct contradiction to three ...
Alma Mahler Werfel celebrated her 70th birthday at home in Beverly Hills on the last day of August 1949. A brass band played as guests chose from a Mitteleuropean selection of drinks: champagne, black ...
From March 20 to June 22, 2025, Museum Folkwang is dedicating an exhibition to two great figures in art history: Oskar Kokoschka, pioneer of expressionism, and Alma Mahler, composer, hostess of ...
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