residenz | you are art to me: the correspondence between alma mahler and walter gropius 1910–1914
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In the summer of 1910, Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius met while on a health cure: it was the beginning of a liaison that began as a passionate affair and became a complex relationship with highs and lows. Around 400 letters tell the story of the young woman and the architect. Until the death of her husband Gustav in May 1911, Alma Mahler was torn between her engagement with his music, her own compositional work and her desire for freedom. At that time, Walter Gropius had little more to show for himself than his idealistic visions. The book, with expert commentary, makes the entire correspondence from 1910 to 1914 accessible for the first time and provides completely new insights into the dramatic lives and works of three central protagonists of modernism.
authors
annemarie jaeggi (ed.) has been director of the bauhaus archive / museum for design in berlin since 2003. the work of walter gropius is a focus of her work.
jörg rothkamm (ed.), is professor of musicology at the university of tübingen. he has been publishing on alma and gustav mahler since the 1990salma mahler - born in vienna in 1879. she received a musical education, and several songs have been handed down from her compositional work. the wife of the composer and conductor gustav mahler and, after mahler's death, of the architect walter gropius and then of the poet franz werfel, in her youth she had personal contact with the secessionists, the painter gustav klimt and the composer (her teacher) alexander von zemlinksy. at times she was the lover of the painter oskar kokoschka. As a hostess of artistic salons, she gathered artists and celebrities around her in Vienna, then after 1938 in Los Angeles and New York. She died in New York in 1964.
walter gropius - born in berlin in 1883, was a german (since 1944 american) architect and founder of the bauhaus. alongside ludwig mies van der rohe, frank lloyd wright and le corbusier, he is considered a pioneer of international modernist architecture. in 1915 he married alma mahler, after their divorce he married the journalist ise frank in 1923. he died in boston in 1969.
hardcover - 23.10.2023 - 784 pages
