Franz Werfel
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Franz Viktor Werfel was a Czech novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Da
Werfel photographed by Van Vechten, 1940
Memorial to Werfel in Vienna. The granite pillar carries the inscription: "In Dankbarkeit und Hochachtung – Das Armenische Volk" (In gratitude and respect, the Armenian people)
Werfel's grave in the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna
Armenian stamp (1995): Franz Werfel and a Hero of Musa Dagh
Alma Mahler
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Alma Mahler-Werfel was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite. Musically active from her early years, she became a fixture of Vienna's fin de siècle cultural scene, and struck up friendsh
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…serving as propagandists, among them Robert Musil, Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Franz Blei. Through the latter, Werfel met and fell in love with Alma Mahler, widow of Gustav Mahler, the former lover of the painter Oskar Kokoschka, and the wife of the architect Walter Gropius, then serving in the Imperial…
Mahler in 1909
Gustav Mahler in 1909
Alma Mahler and the daughters Maria (at left) and Anna (at right) with her first husband Gustav Mahler; cabinet card photo c. 1906
House of Franz Werfel and Alma Mahler in Sanary-sur-Mer