Alma Mahler Werfel

Austrian composer and socialite Alma Mahler had a colorful, romantic life filled with wealthy and influential partners. She began her romantic journey with Austrian artist Gustav Klimt and later had a relationship with composer Alexander von Zemlinsky. Unions with architect Walter Gropius and writer Franz Werfel followed her marriage to composer Gustav Mahler.

Alma's love life was marked by affairs, including one with artist Oskar Kokoschka, who went so far as to create a doll resembling her.

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