Alma Mahler-Werfel Collection. 1949-1964

Abstract

The collection holds two letters by Alma Mahler-Werfel to Friderike Zweig, Stefan Zweig's wife (undated and 1949), as well as one letter from Alma to a Mr. Bloch, discussing Franz Werfel's Jewish identity (1958). Also included are a newspaper article and her obituary.Alma Schindler was born in Vienna in 1879 as the daughter of the landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler. She studied with the composer Alexander von Zemlinsky and in 1902 married Gustav Mahler. In 1915, she married the architect Walter Gropius; the couple separated in 1918. In 1929, she married Franz Werfel. She died in New York in 1964.German and some English.digitize