Kokoschka And Alma Mahler

Author : Alfred Weidinger,Oskar Kokoschka
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Artist Couples
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018369343

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Kokoschka and Alma Mahler by Alfred Weidinger,Oskar Kokoschka Pdf

Oskar Kokoschka first met Alma Mahler on April 12, 1912, exactly eleven months after the death of her husband - the composer Gustav Mahler. Three days later, the much younger Kokoschka proposed to her in a passionate letter and they embarked on a stormy relationship which was to last only three years. This short and passionate affair greatly influenced his work. Kokoschka, born in Austria in 1886, was both an artist and writer. He led a turbulent life and travelled extensively, before settling in England where he became a British Subject in 1947. He died in Switzerland in 1980, just days before his 94th birthday. Kokoschka's work was greatly influenced by Gustav Klimt and medieval artists such as Lucas Cranach and Albrecht Durer, painting in a distinctive Expressionist style in his early career. Kokoschka and Alma Mahler explores their passionate relationship, illustrating and discussing the 20 paintings, 70 drawings and prints, and 7 fans that bear witness to this incredibly intense and fateful relationship. His works reflect his love and overwhelming desire, the impressions gained from his travels, and the depths of his despair. The fascinating picture portrayed by the author includes hitherto unpublished material, in particular Alma Mahler's diary from 1912-1913.

Author : Cate Haste
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780465096725

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Passionate Spirit by Cate Haste Pdf

A new biography of Alma Mahler (1879-1964), revealing a woman determined to wield power in a world that denied her agency History has long vilified Alma Mahler. Critics accused her of distracting Gustav Mahler from his work, and her passionate love affairs shocked her peers. Drawing on Alma's vivid, sensual, and overlooked diaries, biographer Cate Haste recounts the untold and far more sympathetic story of this ambitious and talented woman. Though she dreamed of being the first woman to compose a famous opera, Alma was stifled by traditional social values. Eventually, she put her own dreams aside and wielded power and influence the only way she could, by supporting the art of more famous men. She worked alongside them and gained credit as their muse, commanding their love and demanding their respect. Passionate Spirit restores vibrant humanity to a woman time turned into a caricature, providing an important correction to a history where systemic sexism has long erased women of talent.

Author : Karen Monson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042565106

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Alma Mahler by Karen Monson Pdf

Author : Oliver Hilmes
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555538453

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Malevolent Muse by Oliver Hilmes Pdf

Of all the colorful figures on the twentieth-century European cultural scene, hardly anyone has provoked more polarity than Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879-1964), mistress to a long succession of brilliant men and wife of three of the best known: composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius and writer Franz Werfel. To her admirers Alma was a self-sacrificing socialite who inspired many great artists. Her detractors found her a self-aggrandizing social climber and an alcoholic, bigoted, vengeful harlot - as one contemporary put it, "a cross between a grande dame and a cesspool." So who was she really? When historian Oliver Hilmes discovered a treasure-trove of unpublished material, much of it in Alma's own words, he used it as the basis for his first biography, setting the record straight while evoking the atmosphere of intellectual life in Europe and then in ŽmigrŽ communities on both coasts of the United States after the Nazi takeover of their home territories. First published in German in 2004, the book was hailed as a rare combination of meticulously researched scholarship and entertaining writing, making it a runaway bestseller and advancing Oliver Hilmes to his position as a household name in contemporary literature. Alma Mahler was one of the twentieth century's rare originals, worthy of her immortalization in song. Oliver Hilmes has provided us with an even-handed yet tantalizingly detailed account of her life, bringing Alma's singular story to a whole new audience.

Author : Susanne Keegan
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015001368878

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The Bride of the Wind by Susanne Keegan Pdf

A perceptive, sweepingly dramatic biography of the astonishing woman who was wife, muse, and mistress to a generation of geniuses--composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, novelist Franz Werfel, and painter Oskar Kokoschka. "The most balanced biography of Alma Mahler yet to have appeared".--The Times Literary Supplement (London). Photographs.

Author : Françoise Giroud
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041592507

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Alma Mahler, Or, The Art of Being Loved by Françoise Giroud Pdf

"Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879? 11 December 1964) was a Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity. She became the wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, as well as the consort of several other prominent men. Musically active from her teens, she was the composer of at least seventeen songs for voice and piano. In later years her salon became an important feature of the artistic scene, first in Vienna, then in Los Angeles."--Wikipedia.

Author : Peter Greenaway
Publisher : Dis Voir Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 2914563701

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The OK Doll by Peter Greenaway Pdf

Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka's love for Alma Mahler was so great that he had a life-sized model of her made. The OK Doll, by Peter Greenaway (born 1942), is the script for an unrealized film about the doll that Kokoschka lived with for three years.

Author : Afonso Cruz
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1529402697

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Kokoschka's Doll by Afonso Cruz Pdf

Author : Karen Monson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037514275

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Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius by Karen Monson Pdf

"Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879? 11 December 1964) was a Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity. She became the wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, as well as the consort of several other prominent men. Musically active from her teens, she was the composer of at least seventeen songs for voice and piano. In later years her salon became an important feature of the artistic scene, first in Vienna, then in Los Angeles."--Wikipedia.

Author : Alma Mahler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042376652

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And the Bridge is Love by Alma Mahler Pdf

Alma Mahler-Werfel was the wife, successively, of the composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, as well as philosopher Rafael Schmidt and filmmaker Nicolás Vergara. She was also a composer.

Author : Alfred Weidinger,Oskar Kokoschka,Jacqueline Guigui-Stollberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015036092867

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Kokoschka and Alma Mahler by Alfred Weidinger,Oskar Kokoschka,Jacqueline Guigui-Stollberg Pdf

Oskar Kokoschka first met Alma Mahler on April 12, 1912, exactly eleven months after the death of her husband - the composer Gustav Mahler. Three days later, the much younger Kokoschka proposed to her in a passionate letter and they embarked on a stormy relationship which was to last only three years. This short and passionate affair greatly influenced his work. Kokoschka, born in Austria in 1886, was both an artist and writer. He led a turbulent life and travelled extensively, before settling in England where he became a British Subject in 1947. He died in Switzerland in 1980, just days before his 94th birthday. Kokoschka's work was greatly influenced by Gustav Klimt and medieval artists such as Lucas Cranach and Albrecht Durer, painting in a distinctive Expressionist style in his early career. Kokoschka and Alma Mahler explores their passionate relationship, illustrating and discussing the 20 paintings, 70 drawings and prints, and 7 fans that bear witness to this incredibly intense and fateful relationship. His works reflect his love and overwhelming desire, the impressions gained from his travels, and the depths of his despair. The fascinating picture portrayed by the author includes hitherto unpublished material, in particular Alma Mahler's diary from 1912-1913.

Author : Gary Kern
Publisher : Wildside Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015053661347

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The Mad Kokoschka by Gary Kern Pdf

Author : Tobias Günter Natter
Publisher : Dumont
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300095562

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Oskar Kokoschka by Tobias Günter Natter Pdf

Oskar Kokoschka ((1886-1980) is one of Austria’s finest and most revered Expressionist artists. His paintings are renowned and admired for their vivid color and restless energy. This significant book focuses on the early portraits that Kokoschka painted in Vienna and Berlin on the eve of World War I. Perhaps the best known and most highly esteemed of all his works, these portraits are wonderful examples of Kokoschka’s use of exaggeration and distortion of color to convey deep emotion and psychological tension. They also present a fascinating look at many of the important intellectual figures of the era, for their subjects include Peter Altenberg, Adolf Loos, Alma Mahler, and Kokoschka himself (in his Self Portrait as Knight Errant). This beautifully illustrated book includes not only these arresting oil portraits but also some of Kokoschka’s drawings of the same sitters and a selection of the postcards, fans, and posters he made for the Wiener Werkstätte in the period before the portraits were completed, all of which shed light on his early development. There are also discussions by eminent authorities on the culture and history of Vienna and Berlin in the prewar period; Kokoschka’s shift from Art Nouveau to Expressionism; his place within the German and Austrian Expressionist movements; his reception in the United States; and much more.

Author : Susan M. Filler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135946692

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Gustav and Alma Mahler by Susan M. Filler Pdf

This revised edition of Garland's 1989 publication updates the core bibliography on Gustave Mahler (as well as his spouse and fellow composer Alma Mahler) by incorporating new research gathered over the past dozen years on his life and professional works. Gustave Mahler, renowned conductor and composer of symphonies and song cycles, is one of the foremost musical figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His symphonies continue to be widely performed and studied through the twenty-first century. Organized in sections according to subject matter, references are arranged alphabetically by the names of authors or editors. Filler’s research has produced sources for musicologists and students in nineteen languages, offering a resource that expands traditional English-language music scholarship.

Author : Susan Melanie Filler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415943888

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Gustav and Alma Mahler by Susan Melanie Filler Pdf

This revised edition of Garland's 1989 publication updates the core bibliography on Gustave Mahler (as well as his spouse and fellow composer Alma Mahler) by incorporating new research gathered over the past dozen years on his life and professional works. Gustave Mahler, renowned conductor and composer of symphonies and song cycles, is one of the foremost musical figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His symphonies continue to be widely performed and studied through the twenty-first century. Organized in sections according to subject matter, references are arranged alphabetically by the names of authors or editors. Filler’s research has produced sources for musicologists and students in nineteen languages, offering a resource that expands traditional English-language music scholarship.