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Description:"So, good evening. My name is Alma Mahler.Well, my name is Alma Mahler, Gropius, Werfel. There.Yes, Gustave Mahler, Walter Gropius, Franz Werfel. A great composer whose work will live long after we are all gone, an architect who founded the Bauhaus movement of design that is still and will continue to be so influential, and then the writer who angered us with The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and then inspired us, gentled us with The Song of Bernadette. And then unofficially the two great innovative painters of the time, of my time and yours too, Klimt and Kokoschka. Of course with Klimt it was nothing, I was young and he was not serious. But of him later.So, I was born in Vienna and I spent many years there. Almost half of my life. I promise not to relate to you everything that happened to me from my birth to today, it took 75 years to live and I suspect it would take twice that to tell. But I would like to begin by telling you a little thing I wrote when I was quite young, thirteen years old. So here is a story that I wrote very early in my life that will reveal something of what we are here to discuss. I give you Alma, the young girl."In her own words Alma Mahler tells of her life as the muse, the love, the inspiration for five seminal creative giants - the composer Gustave Mahler, the artists Gustave Klimt and Oskar Kokoshka, the founder of the Bauhaus movement in design and architecture Walter Gropius, and then Franz Werfel, the author of, among other important works, THE SONG OF BERNARDETTE and THE FORTY DAYS OF MUS DAGH. This book is about her life, yes, but also reveals so much about the way each of these geniuses worked, as she analyzes much of their work as no one else could, being their inspiration at important times in their life when their creative output was at its height.Each of them dedicated a work to her, and through her we see much of the creative mainstream and rebellions of the artistic community of her time. Mahler is played more today than Beethovan. Klimt and Kokoshka paintings are selling for millions of dollars today, a far cry from their penniless days in Vienna. She tells with stirring clarity the great escape from Europe that she and Franz Werfel were forced to make when the Nazi scourge descended on Europe and literally chased them all over Europe until they finally sailed from Lisbon.When you listen to Mahler, or look at the paintings of Klimt and Kokoshka, or do something as simple as sitting in a chair that reflects the vision of Walter Gropius - when you read today of the murky relationship between Armenia and Turkey and perhaps read The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, surely it must come over you a feeling of oneness with the creator of what is moving you right then - who were they really, what did they think, was influenced them.How did they work?Alma Mahler's unique place as the intimate observer, sometimes participant in the creative processes of these great men offers, here in her own words, a testament to the truth of love as an inspiration for creativity, and is also a modest yet candid revealing portrait of herself as the muse of greatness.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel. To get started finding Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Lightfoot Media Group

Release: 2011

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Description: "So, good evening. My name is Alma Mahler.Well, my name is Alma Mahler, Gropius, Werfel. There.Yes, Gustave Mahler, Walter Gropius, Franz Werfel. A great composer whose work will live long after we are all gone, an architect who founded the Bauhaus movement of design that is still and will continue to be so influential, and then the writer who angered us with The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and then inspired us, gentled us with The Song of Bernadette. And then unofficially the two great innovative painters of the time, of my time and yours too, Klimt and Kokoschka. Of course with Klimt it was nothing, I was young and he was not serious. But of him later.So, I was born in Vienna and I spent many years there. Almost half of my life. I promise not to relate to you everything that happened to me from my birth to today, it took 75 years to live and I suspect it would take twice that to tell. But I would like to begin by telling you a little thing I wrote when I was quite young, thirteen years old. So here is a story that I wrote very early in my life that will reveal something of what we are here to discuss. I give you Alma, the young girl."In her own words Alma Mahler tells of her life as the muse, the love, the inspiration for five seminal creative giants - the composer Gustave Mahler, the artists Gustave Klimt and Oskar Kokoshka, the founder of the Bauhaus movement in design and architecture Walter Gropius, and then Franz Werfel, the author of, among other important works, THE SONG OF BERNARDETTE and THE FORTY DAYS OF MUS DAGH. This book is about her life, yes, but also reveals so much about the way each of these geniuses worked, as she analyzes much of their work as no one else could, being their inspiration at important times in their life when their creative output was at its height.Each of them dedicated a work to her, and through her we see much of the creative mainstream and rebellions of the artistic community of her time. Mahler is played more today than Beethovan. Klimt and Kokoshka paintings are selling for millions of dollars today, a far cry from their penniless days in Vienna. She tells with stirring clarity the great escape from Europe that she and Franz Werfel were forced to make when the Nazi scourge descended on Europe and literally chased them all over Europe until they finally sailed from Lisbon.When you listen to Mahler, or look at the paintings of Klimt and Kokoshka, or do something as simple as sitting in a chair that reflects the vision of Walter Gropius - when you read today of the murky relationship between Armenia and Turkey and perhaps read The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, surely it must come over you a feeling of oneness with the creator of what is moving you right then - who were they really, what did they think, was influenced them.How did they work?Alma Mahler's unique place as the intimate observer, sometimes participant in the creative processes of these great men offers, here in her own words, a testament to the truth of love as an inspiration for creativity, and is also a modest yet candid revealing portrait of herself as the muse of greatness.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel. To get started finding Alma Mahler-Gropius-Werfel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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