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Manon Gropius. Alma Manon Anna Justina Carolina Gropius (5 October 1916 – 22 April 1935) was the Austrian-born daughter of the German architect Walter Gropius and the Austrian composer and diarist Alma Mahler and the stepdaughter of the novelist and poet Franz Werfel. [1] She is a Randfigur (peripheral person) whose importance lies in her ...
- 22 April 1935 (aged 18), Vienna, Austria
Jan 5, 2015 · Manon Gropius (1916-1935). 1931, Berlin, Germany. Relation to Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) : A child from the second marriage of his wife Born: 05-10-1916 Vienna, Austria.
Mar 28, 2019 · Manon Gropius with her parents Alma Mahler-Werfel and Walter Gropius (1918) (image via Wikimedia) Meanwhile, the war interfered with Mahler and Gropius’s marriage, too, causing them to be ...
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Alma Manon Anna Justina Carolina Gropius (5 October 1916 – 22 April 1935) was the Austrian-born daughter of the German architect Walter Gropius and the Austrian composer and diarist Alma Mahler and the stepdaughter of the novelist and poet Franz Werfel. She is a Randfigur (peripheral person) whose importance lies in her relationships to major ...
Mar 1, 2019 · Under the terms of their divorce Alma was granted custody of Manon, allowing Gropius to see her only rarely. Their long separations caused him enormous anguish. His letters to Mutzi, as he called ...
The cause was polio, and she was seventeen years of age. Back in Vienna, the enchanting Manon, who would have liked to become an actress, would sit all dressed up in a wheelchair and be taken around the large house on the Hohe Warte. She died very suddenly, on Easter Monday in 1935. In remembrance of Manon Gropius, Alban Berg composed his ...
Sep 6, 2020 · A Hauntology of a Daughter in the Triangle of Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel. James Reidel. Not just a narrative biography, Manon’s World is also a medical history of polio that killed Manon and a personal cultural history of the aspirations projected on her and seen as lost by such keen observers as Elias Canetti, who devoted ...