ALMA MAHLER-WERFEL was born in Habsburg Austria in 1879 and died in New York in 1964. During the course of her long life she was married to the composer Gustav Mahler, the architect Walter Gropius and the novelist Franz Werfel, and had a notorious affair with the painter Oskar Kokoschka. She was intimately involved with the most prominent movements in twentiethcentury music, art, architecture and literature, and counted many of Europe's foremost artists among her friends.
At the beginning of her extraordinary life Alma was a ravishing beauty, and she remained a temperamental tyrant - to husbands, lovers, friends - to the very end. She has always been a figure of controversy, inspiring highly positive or deeply negative feelings in those who met her. None, however, ever forgot her, and a succession of immensely gifted men believed that, in her, they had met the perfect feminine counterpoint to the artist's genius.
Contains 8 pages of b/w illustrations.
