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  1. Alma Mahler (born Aug. 31, 1879, Vienna, Austria-Hungary—died Dec. 11, 1964, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was known for her relationships with celebrated men, including her husband, Gustav Mahler. The daughter of the painter Emil Schindler, Alma grew up surrounded by art and artists. She studied art and became friends with the painter Gustav Klimt ...

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  2. Sep 20, 2019 · Biography Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler Cate Haste Bloomsbury, $44.99. Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel, née Schindler (1897-1964), a privileged, highly cultured child of the Austro ...

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  3. Jul 6, 2023 · Alma Mahler, in a 1916 self-portrait: Known for her tumultuous love life, she has come to be seen in two different guises. Less than six months after the death of Alma Schindler on Dec. 11, 1964, the satirist Tom Lehrer wrote a song that he said was inspired by “the juiciest, spiciest, raciest obituary it has ever been my pleasure to read.”.

  4. Alma Mahler (Schindler-Mahler) 1879 - 1964 Forgotten Voices. Alma Schindler (1879-1964) was born in Vienna into an artistic inclined family. As a child, her musical gifts were encouraged to some extent with piano and composition lessons, including with Alexander Zemlinsky, although in 1898 her father vetoed more advanced piano lessons.

  5. Jun 15, 2019 · 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. A LMA MAHLER was the supreme femme fatale of ...

  6. Nov 2, 2015 · Many of these men were Jews—including her first husband, the composer Gustav Mahler, and her third, the writer Franz Werfel, as well as several of her many lovers. The daughter of a Christian Viennese painter, Alma also held fiercely anti-Semitic attitudes, which receive attention in a biography by Oliver Hilmes, recently translated into English.

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  8. Alma Mahler Werfel ­ die größte femme fatale des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Komponist Gustav Mahler ist daran gestorben, daß er sie zu sehr geliebt hat, der Maler Oskar Kokoschka konnte ihren Verlust ein Leben lang nicht verwinden, der Architekt Walter Gropius war ein Spielzeug in ihren Händen, und der Dichter Franz Werfel schrieb: Sie gehört zu den ganz wenigen Zauberfrauen, die es gibt!

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