Alma Mahler – Frau, Künstlerin, Muse: Aus dem Leben einer Femme fatale
Alma Mahler - a Woman, Artist, Muse: From the Life of a Femme Fatale

Summary/Abstract: Alma Mahler was ranked among the most expressive people of the turn of the 19th and 20th century. She was revered as a woman and as a Muse but she was cursed, too. She was born to an artistic family, where she obtained the basic orientation in Arts and could study music. Thanks to a plentiful cultural life and the salon conducted by her mother, she met the most interesting people of this time. When she married Gustav Mahler, she joined the musical elite, where she stayed the whole life. The life of Alma Mahler is characterized by the marriage with Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel, by many emotional flare-ups, inconsistent behaviour, intensive anti-Semitism, and other events in her long life. For a lot of contemporaries and followers Alma Mahler was a Muse and a woman of their dreams. An important period of her life was her composing, too. This article tries to give an objective view of this original woman.

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