Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma Mahler

by Oliver Hilmes

Of all the colorful figures on the twentieth-century European cultural scene, hardly anyone has provoked more-polarized reactions than Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879-1964). Mistress to a long succession of brilliant men, she married three of the best known: the composer Gustav Mahler, the architect Walter Gropius, and the writer Franz Werfel. Her admirers regarded Alma as a self-sacrificing figure of inspiration to great artists, many...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555537898
• ISBN13: 9781555537890
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher