Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel
Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More
Gary Arndt
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the movie Forrest Gump, one man finds himself at the center of historical events, |
| 0:04.4 | encountering famous people over the course of decades. |
| 0:07.2 | While Forrest Gump was fictitious, there have been people who have served as a nexus at certain places and times in history. |
| 0:14.6 | One such person existed in the early 20th century, and her life intersected with several |
| 0:19.1 | important figures in the world of art in Central Europe. |
| 0:22.3 | Three of which she married. Learn more about the incredible life of Alma Margaritha Marie Schindler |
| 0:28.0 | Malar Gropius Verful on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The story of the woman born Alma Margarita Maria Schindler, |
| 0:51.0 | hereby referred to simply as Alma, is a fascinating one. |
| 0:55.2 | However, I don't think she should be considered the heroine of this story, and I don't think |
| 0:59.5 | she should be upheld as a role model. |
| 1:02.1 | The men in her life, and there were many, really aren't heroes either. |
| 1:06.7 | Nonetheless, the story of Alma is one that seems to at least touch on the lives of so many |
| 1:11.2 | famous people from the era she lived in. |
| 1:14.1 | The story of Alma begins with her birth on August 31st, 1879 in Vienna, Austria. |
| 1:20.0 | Vienna at that time, and for decades before, was a center of music and art. |
| 1:24.3 | Anna was born into an artistic family in one of the world's great artistic cities. |
| 1:29.1 | Alma's father was Emmel Jacob Schindler, a noted landscape painter in Vienna. |
| 1:34.4 | Her mother Anna Sophie had a short career as an opera singer. |
| 1:37.8 | Alma adored her father, and many psychologists think that her attachment to her father may have |
| 1:42.3 | influenced her later relationships with the men in her life. |
| 1:45.0 | Emmel Schindler eventually found a patron in the Austrian crown prince Rudolph, who commissioned him to paint landscapes of the prince's vacation to the Adriatic in 1886. |
| 1:54.8 | Schindler took his entire family with him on the trip, including seven-year-old Alma. |
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