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Alma Manon Anna Justina Carolina Gropius (5 October 1916 – 22 April 1935) was the Austrian-born daughter of the German architect Walter Gropius and the Austrian composer and diarist Alma Mahler and the stepdaughter of the novelist and poet Franz Werfel.
Jan 5, 2015 · Manon Gropius was born in Vienna during the height of World War I, on October 5, 1916, the third child of Alma Mahler, the widow of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler, and wife of the architect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius.
Manon Gropius (1916-1935) Alma´s third daughter. On 5th October 1916, Alma bore her husband Walter Gropius a daughter who, from the very first moment, cast her spell over everyone: »His mind, my body! The consummation of us both must give rise to a demigod!«.
Mar 28, 2019 · Nearly 100 years ago Walter Gropius divorced from Alma Mahler, the Viennese musician married to the academy’s famed founder during the planning stages of the Bauhaus. Already have an account ...
Manon Gropius (1916-1935) Alma´s third daughter. On 5th October 1916, Alma bore her husband Walter Gropius a daughter who, from the very first moment, cast her spell over everyone: »His mind, my body! The consummation of us both must give rise to a demigod!«.
Oct 4, 2021 · Manon Gropius (1916–1935) was the daughter of Alma Mahler, the widow of Gustav Mahler, and the architect Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, and the stepdaughter of the writer Franz Werfel. In Manon’s World, James Reidel explores the life and death of a child at the centre of a broken love triangle.
Sep 6, 2020 · Not just a narrative biography, Manon’s World is also a medical history of polio that killed Manon and a personal cultural history of the aspirations projected on her and seen as lost by such keen observers as Elias Canetti, who devoted two chapters of his Nobel Prize-winning memoirs to his encounters with Manon and her funeral.
