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 ...
German philosopher and social critic Teodor Adorno called her a “monster.” Composer Richard Strauss saw in her “the inferiority complexes of a dissolute female.” A Viennese acquaintance, Gina Kaus, ...
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 ...
Après sa "mort à Venise", le romantisme fut-il fini? C'est à voir non, à entendre... C'est la biographie de la séductrice multiple: Gustav Klimt et Alexander von Zemlinsky, puis Gustav, puis la femme ...
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 ...