Merely to list her legal names is to provide a choice glimpse of Germanic culture during the last century. Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel was the daughter of Emil Schindler, a highly ...

Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel, the great heartbreaker of fin de sie{grv}cle Vienna, was stunning, smart, moderately unbalanced and phenomenally successful when it came to bedding famous men. She slept ...

Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel, who married and bedded a string of the 20th century’s most creative geniuses, is celebrating her 125th birthday — and what a party it’s going to be. For the occasion, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Alma,” premiering this week at the Vienna Volksoper, views its often-vilified protagonist through a feminist lens: as a thwarted composer and mother.

The granddaughter of Alma and Gustav Mahler is challenging the Austrian government to return an Edvard Munch painting that was sold when Alma Mahler-Werfel fled the Nazis with her Jewish husband in ...

German philosopher and social critic Teodor Adorno called her a “monster.” Composer Richard Strauss saw in her “the inferiority complexes of a dissolute female.” A Viennese acquaintance, Gina Kaus, ...

Bride of the Wind is a fictionalized account of thirty years in the life of Alma Mahler (1879-1964), who was married to composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius (a founder of the Bauhaus) and ...

Some love affairs, like stately quin-queremes, sail serenely on for decades. Others founder in tempests of selfishness, or rocks of jealousy. In her 1958 memoirs, Vienna’s Alma Schindler Mahler ...

Bruce Beresford’s “Bride of the Wind” is a resolutely conventional biographical drama of a most unconventional woman, Alma Mahler. She was a Viennese beauty at the turn of the 20th century who set her ...

The film's subject Alma Mahler must have been a fascinating person. You leave "Bride of the Wind" knowing little about her and what made her tick. The true story is beautiful on the surface, but there ...

"BRIDE OF the Wind" introduces us to an ensemble of famous artists in turn of the century Vienna, including composer Gustav Mahler (Jonathan Pryce), painters Gustav Klimt (August Schmoelzer) and Oskar ...