Alma Mahler letters, ca. 1939-1961, to Willy Haas.
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Mahler, Alma
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Alma Mahler, daughter of painter Emil Jakob Schindler and singer Anna Bergen, grew up in Vienna, studied music, and married composer Gustav Mahler. After his death in 1911, she married architect Walter Gropius in 1915. She and writer Franz Werfel fled Nazi Germany in 1937 for France and settled in California in 1940. From the description of Alma Mahler's birthday book, 1949. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 48912134 Born Alma Maria Schindler, Al...
Haas, Willy, 1891-1973.
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Born and raised in Prague, Willy Haas was a film critic and screenplay writer in Berlin during the Weimar Republic and was co-founder with Ernst Rowohlt of the periodical Die literarische Welt. Of Jewish descent, he was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and returned to Prague, where he mostly worked as a film critic and editor. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, he fled to Italy and then emigrated to India, where he spent the remainder of the war years. Among other things, he w...
Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980
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Austrian-British painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed, autograph postal card signed and greeting card signed : [Villeneuve], to John Rewald, 1961 Jan. 7-1962 Nov. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871195 Arno Nadel, the musician, writer and painter, was the author of 1 letter to Kokoschka (transcript); Paul Cassirer (1871-1926), the art dealer and publisher, was the addressee of 1 letter from Kokoschka (transcript). From the description of...
