The swirling vortex of art, sex, psychology and dissolving taboos that defined fin de siecle Vienna has been rendered flat and flavorless in "Bride of the Wind," a distinctly unimaginative account of ...

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 ...

The first challenge is deciding what to call her. She is encircled by famous surnames—men jousting over her identity. A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the ...

Histrionic bordering on hysterical, “Mahler on the Couch” reduces one of 20th-century music’s greatest figures to a dithering cuckold, his marriage to a feeble feminist allegory, and Sigmund Freud to ...

Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel, who married and bedded a string of the 20th century’s most creative geniuses, is celebrating her 125th birthday — and what a party it’s going to be. For the occasion, ...

The granddaughter of Alma and Gustav Mahler is challenging the Austrian government to return an Edvard Munch painting that was sold when Alma Mahler-Werfel fled the Nazis with her Jewish husband in ...