Correspondence with Alma Mahler, 1946-1956.

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Correspondence with Alma Mahler, 1946-1956.

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Mainly concerns a variety of caretaking matters pertaining to Alma Mahler's 2 residences in Austria, and papers and other belongings, all of which had fallen to the care of her half-sister Maria Eberstaller and her stepfather, Carl Moll, after Alma and Franz Werfel were forced to flee Austria in 1938; the matters covered include taking inventory and investigating the whereabouts of various items, assessing damage to property, and providing for repairs. Legler also reports to Alma about tasks he undertakes on her behalf in connection with the legal claims that Alma was raising for the restitution of property. Legler's letter to Walter Gropius concerns the upkeep of Manon Gropius's grave and encloses a diagram of the gravesite. The letter from Lauer reports on his work in laying bare and assessing the condition of a wall painting by Kokoschka in Alma Mahler's house in Breitenstein. Legler's letter to Hirsch concerns the retrieval from S. Fischer Verlag of documents pertaining to Alma's payments for repairs to her house in Vienna (the publishing company had mediated the payments).

32 items (55 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Tlapek, Ludwig Franz

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Simon, Joseph.

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Legler, Wilhelm, 1902-1960.

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Wilhelm ("Willi") Legler was an architect in Vienna. He was Alma Mahler's nephew, the son of her half-sister Margarethe ("Gretl" or "Grete") Schindler (1880-1942) and the painter Wilhelm Legler (1875-1951), who were married in 1900. Hirsch was a director at S. Fischer Verlag. Petrik was a carpenter who refurbished antique furniture. Lauer was a restorer working under contract from Schiffswerft Korneuburg. Tlapek was an attorney in Vienna who was arranging for the appropriate return of documents ...

Weissenstein, Friedrich.

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Weissenstein was an attorney in Vienna whom Alma Mahler engaged to pursue her postwar legal claims for restitution of property in Austria; Simon was an attorney in Weissenstein's office. Simon had been recommended to Alma by her nephew Wilhelm ("Willi") Legler (1902-1960), following the death, in 1955, of her attorney Otto Hein, who had originally handled the case. Other attorneys she consulted in the case were Hans Gürtler and Georg Weisl. From the description of Correspondence wit...

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...

Hollnsteiner, Johannes, 1895-

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Petrik, Alois.

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Lauer, Alfred

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Hirsch, Rudolf, 1905-1996

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Hirsch was a scholar who worked on Hugo von Hofmannsthal's papers and was the initiator of the critical edition of Hofmannthal's works published by S. Fischer Verlag; he was a director of S. Fischer Verlag until 1962, and then became one of the directors of Insel Verlag in 1963. From the description of Correspondence toAdolf Klarmann, 1965-1967. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863468 ...