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 meet during a spa stay: it is the beginning of an affair that starts as a passionate love story and develops into a complex relationship with ups and downs.
About 400 letters tell the story of the young woman and the architect. Until the death of her husband Gustav in May 1911, Alma Mahler is torn between engaging with his music, her own work as a composer, and her need for freedom. At that time, Walter Gropius had little more to offer than his idealistic visions. The book, accompanied by insightful commentary, makes the entire correspondence from 1910-1914 accessible for the first time and offers a completely new perspective on the dramatic life and work of three central figures of modernism.
Authors
Annemarie Jaeggi (ed.), director of the Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design in Berlin from 2003 to 2026. The work of Walter Gropius is the focus of her work.
Jörg Rothkamm (ed.), professor of musicology at the University of Tübingen. Since the 1990s, he has published works on Alma and Gustav Mahler. Alma Mahler – born in 1879 in Vienna. She completed a musical education and several of her compositions have been preserved. She was the wife of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler, after his death of the architect Walter Gropius, and finally of the poet Franz Werfel. In her youth, she socialized with the Secessionists, especially the painter Gustav Klimt.
