#Alma Mahler-Werfel

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Alma Mahler-Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite. Musically active from her early years, she was the composer of nearly fifty songs for voice and piano, and works in other genres as well. 17 songs are known to have survived. At 15, she was mentored by Max Burckhard.  She married composer Gustav Mahler, who later began to support her in composing and assisted in preparing some of her works for publication, but he died in 1911.

In 1915, Alma married Walter Gropius, and they had a daughter, Manon Gropius. Throughout her marriage to Gropius, Alma engaged in an affair with Franz Werfel. Following her separation from Gropius, Alma and Werfel eventually married.

In 1938, after Nazi Germany annexed Austria, Werfel and Alma fled, as it was unsafe for the Jewish Werfel. Eventually the couple settled in Los Angeles. In later years, her salon became part of the artistic scene, first in Vienna, then in Los Angeles and New York.

A satirical singer, Tom Lehrer, composed a ditty when she died. It began:

[Verse] The loveliest girl in Vienna Was Alma, the smartest as well Once you picked her up on your antenna You'd never be free of her spell Her lovers were many and varied From the day she began her beguine There were three famous ones whom she married And God knows how many between

[Chorus] Alma, tell us: All modern women are jealous Which of your magical wands Got you Gustav and Walter and Franz?

Here are two photos of her.

1909 Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel. From faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1096/fj.10-0801ufm.

Alma Mahler-Werfel by ?. From tumblr.com/beautifulcentury/730905452781649920?source=share&.

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Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879-1964)

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Alma, tell us, all modern are jealous!

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Home of Franz Werfel and Alma Mahler in Sanary-sur-Mer, France

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lost klimt portrait shows up in vienna :0

Fräulein Lieser ("Miss Lieser") has never been on public display since its creation in 1917 - you are now looking at the painting in color for (probably) the first time ever.

The current owner inherited the painting in 2022 - it originally came to be in the possession of their predecessors in the 1960s, but it is unclear how the painting came to be in the first buyer's possession. There is no information available about whether or not the painting had to be relinquished, was confiscated or sold under distress by the Lieser family after 1938. However, since the potential original owners were both forcibly dispossessed in 1938, documentation of the dispossession for this particular may have been lost.

On April 28th, the painting will be put up for auction at im Kinsky in Vienna, with the price being projected to be between 30 to 50 million euro. The legally unclear situation of whether or not the painting is Nazi-looted art is why the auction was commissioned by both the recent inheritor and the legal successors of Adolf Lieser and his sister-in-law Henriette Amelie "Lilly" Lieser, in accordance with the Washington Principles.

In the past, the depicted young woman was identified as Adolf's daughter Constance Margarethe Lieser, who would have been 18 years old during Klimt's creation of the painting. However, new research presented by the auction house im Kinsky has brought up doubts as to who the depicted "Miss Lieser" actually is. Adolf's sister-in-law Lilly Lieser, who had married and later divorced Adolf's brother Julius, was a patron of the arts and might have commissioned a painting of either of her daughters, Helene and Annie Lieser. Klimt himself never identified the commissioning customer beyond "Lieser" and died in 1918, before the painting was finished.

Lilly Lieser was a central patron of art and music in fin de siécle Vienna. She is especially well-known for her financial support of Arnold Schöneberg and was an avid art collector. For years, her best friend was Alma Mahler-Werfel. Both Adolf and Lilly Lieser were dispossessed in 1938 and later deported to Riga and/or Auschwitz, where they were murdered. Details to Margarethe's life aren't readily available, she died in London in 1943 or 44. Helene Lieser, who had been the first woman in Austria to get a PhD in political sciences, fled Austria in 1938 and ended up in Geneva. After the war, she lived in Paris, working for UNESCO, OEEC and the International Economic Association. She died from cancer in 1962 in Vienna. Annie Lieser, who was a celebrated interpretative dancer, married Austrian artist Hans Sidonius Becker. In 1938, her and their son Johann managed to flee to the US. Hans Becker was active in the Austrian resistance movement and annulled their marriage in 1941 to marry another woman. Annie probably never went back to Austria but kept contact with several other Austrian emigrants in California, among them Alma Mahler-Werfel and Luzie Korngold. She died in Los Angeles in 1972.

The painting will be shown to the public from April 10th at im Kinsky in Vienna as well as during a projected world tour to Asia, Europe and the USA.

Sources:

Olga Kronsteiner, DER STANDARD 25.01.2024

Wikipedia: Henriette Amalie Lieser, Helene Lieser, Hans Sidonius Becker

Alexandra Matzner, ART IN WORDS 25.01.2024

Valerie Gaber, im Kinsky 25.01.2024

Alexandra Löw, BiografiA Annie Becker

Anna Amilar, BiografiA Henriette Amelie Lieser, Website

Photograph of Bildnis Fräulein Lieser © Auktionshaus im Kinsky GmbH, Vienna

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Jeremy Strong’s Favourite Books

Incase anyone is crazy like me and wants to know what he likes lol

Book Summary Links:

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Angel of Response - Wallace Stegner

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Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

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Diaries 1898-1902 - Alma Mahler Werfel

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Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke

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Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time (volume 1) - Marcel Proust

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Four Quarters - T.S Eliot

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The Man Who Owns The News - Michael Wolff

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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Caretaker - Harold Printer

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My Struggle - Karl Ove Knausgaard

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^crying. Not me having already read “The Caretaker” and “Letters to a Young Poet” before I knew he liked them?!😭. We’d so be friends in college I don’t care what anyone else says.

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"Between too early and too late there is

only a moment"

-Alma Mahler

Alma Mahler-Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite

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Alma Mahler (née Schindler, later Mahler-Werfel, and sometimes referred to as Alma Gropius — Austrian, 1897–1964) on a deck chair, ca. 1910

Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Inv. No. 2006/114.10

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heutzutage hätte Kokoschka ein waifu body pillow von Alma Mahler-Werfel

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Alma Mahler's (1879-1964) - "Sämtliche Lieder" as performed by Charlotte Margiono (soprano) and members of the Brabant Orchestra.

Conducting and orchestral arrangements by Julian Reynolds.

"Die stille Stadt" (Richard Dehmel) Start "In meines Vaters Garten" (Otto Erich Hartleben) 3:13 "Laue Sommernacht" (Gustav Falke) 9:31 "Bei dir ist es traut" (Rainer Maria Rilke) 12:16 "Ich wandle unter Blumen" (Heinrich Heine) 14:43 "Licht in der Nacht" (Otto Julius Bierbaum) 15:55 "Waldseligkeit" (Richard Dehmel) 20:14 "Ansturm" (Richard Dehmel) 22:57 "Erntelied" (Gustav Falke) 25:06 "Hymne" (Novalis) 28:34 "Ekstase" (Otto Julius Bierbaum) 34:20 "Der Erkennende" (Franz Werfel) 37:00 "Lobgesang" (Rcihard Dehmel) 40:18 "Hymne an die Nacht" (Novalis) 43:55 "Leise weht ein erstes Blühn" (Rainer Maria Rilke) 47:24 "Kennst du meine Nächte" 51:37

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Hyperspecific Poll Time!

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ALMA MAHLER // COMPOSER

“She was an Austrian composer, author, editor and socialite. Musically active from her early years, she was the composer of nearly fifty songs for voice and piano, and works in other genres as well. 17 songs are known to have survived. She married composer Gustav Mahler, who later began to support her in composition and assisted in preparing some of her works for publication. Mahler and her third husband, Franz Werfel, fled Austria after Nazi Germany annexed it in 1938, settling in Los Angeles.”

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Oskar KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980) “Drawings”

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Michael Lichtwarck-Aschoff: Der Sohn des Sauschneiders

Michael Lichtwarck-Aschoff: Der Sohn des Sauschneiders

Bild von analogicus auf Pixabay

„Der Grottenolm kommt blind auf die Welt. Wozu bräuchte er in der Dunkelheit, in der er sein Leben verbringt, auch Augen. Aber die Anlagen zu Augen hat er. Und wenn er in zwei Heimaten leben kann, in einer finsteren und einer taghellen – könnte er dann nicht auch lernen, seine Augen zu öffnen, sie aus den flachen Gruben heraus, in denen sie schlummern, zum vollen…