Alma Mahler

geboren 1879 in Wien. Sie genoss eine musikalische Ausbildung, von ihrem kompositorischen Schaffen sind mehrere Lieder überliefert. Die Ehefrau des Komponisten und Dirigenten Gustav Mahler und, nach Mahlers Tod, des Architekten Walter Gropius und danach des Dichters Franz Werfel hatte in ihrer Jugend persönlichen Umgang mit den Secessionisten, dem Maler Gustav Klimt und mit dem Komponisten (ihrem Lehrer) Alexander von Zemlinksy. Zeitweise war sie die Geliebte des Malers Oskar Kokoschka. Als Gastgeberin künstlerischer Salons versammelte sie in Wien, dann nach 1938 in Los Angeles und New York, Künstler und Prominente um sich. 1964 verstarb sie in New York.

Annemarie Jaeggi (Edited by) Jörg Rothkamm (Edited by) Alma Mahler Walter Gropius - ‘You Are Art to Me’

The correspondence Alma Mahler – Walter Gropius 1910–1914

In the summer of 1910, Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius meet at a health spa. It is the beginning of a liaison that starts as a passionate affair and develops into a complex relationship full of highs and lows. In approximately four hundred letters, their correspondence tells the story of a remarkable young woman and a now famous architect. Until the death of her husband Gustav in May 1911, Alma Mahler was torn between her involvement with his music, her own activities as a composer and her desire for freedom. At the time, Walter Gropius had little more than his idealistic visions. The book makes the complete correspondence between 1910 and 1914 accessible for the first time, offering entirely new insights into the dramatic life and work of three central protagonists of modernity.

Alma Mahler

Books

Annemarie Jaeggi (Edited by) Jörg Rothkamm (Edited by) Alma Mahler Walter Gropius - ‘You Are Art to Me’

The correspondence Alma Mahler – Walter Gropius 1910–1914