you are my art: 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 during a spa treatment: it was the beginning of a liaison that started as a passionate affair and became a complex relationship with ups and downs. Around 400 letters tell the life 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 activity, and her desire for freedom. At that time, Walter Gropius had little more to show than his idealistic visions. The book, expertly commented, makes the entire correspondence from 1910-1914 accessible for the first time and offers completely new insights into the dramatic life and work of three central protagonists of modernity.
authors
Annemarie Jaeggi (ed.), has been director of the Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design in Berlin since 2003. The work of Walter Gropius is a focus of her work.
Jörg Rothkamm (ed.), is a professor of musicology at the University of Tübingen. Since the 1990s, he has published on Alma and Gustav Mahler. Alma Mahler - born 1879 in Vienna. She received musical training, and several songs from her compositional work have been preserved. The wife of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler and, after Mahler's death, of the architect Walter Gropius and later the poet Franz Werfel, she had personal contact in her youth with the Secessionists, the painter Gustav Klimt, and the composer (her teacher) Alexander von Zemlinsky. 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 1883 in Berlin, was a German (since 1944 US-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 edition - 23.10.2023 - 784 pages
