the last femme fatale

[tyarky]

yesterday, in french class, a classmate reported on the life of the expressionist painter oskar kokoschka. what interested me more was the relationship he had with this woman, alma mahler. and the men she had relationships with. among them gustav mahler, gustav klimt, walter gropiusfor mahler, she gave up composing so as not to outshine him in his

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Mahler

[brillantesz]

Isn't that the name of one of the AFI servers?

*heehee*

[tyarky]

yes, my server...
*LoL*

but i think that server was named after a former director general of the WHO, dr. halfdan t. mahler

[eyean]

femme fatales always had friends, they were always sought after...

even the deadly mata-hari...

[tank_boy]

Alma Mahler, Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn... it's not fair to call those women famous artist's muses. They were great composers/artists but not allowed to establish. When I listen to some of their works, I'm still convinced that they were more gifted than their partners but stopped from developping their talents.

hmmm.. interesting...

[tyarky]

yeah, i read that alma mahler stopped composing for her husband's sake...

yes, unfair indeed.

[tyarky]

i would love to hear those women's compositions.