Anna Mahler
Anna Mahler was born to Alma Mahler and Gustav Mahler in June 1904. She had an older sister, born in 1902, who died of scarlet fever in 1907, shortly followed by her father who died in 1911. This left Anna and her mother with only each other, her mother quickly having two love affairs with different artists- Oskar Kokoschka and Walter Gropius. Anna is told to be “living in her mother’s shadow” as Alma’s love affairs and famous salon ran her life. Ultimately, her mother married Gropius in 1915, after an explosive and dramatic relationship with Kokoschka, and Anna gained a half-sister.
Anna’s education consisted of private tutors and long talks with her mother’s artistic friends, who all had a liking toward her. With her father being Gustav Mahler, even though he had died when she was young, she had a strong foundation in music and arts which caused lots of interest in the young artists of Vienna. In her mother’s relationship with Oskar Kokoscha, she had immense exposure to the visual arts, and later became a model for her mother-in-law of her first husband. She consistently studied the arts throughout her travels and took sculpting lessons in 1930 from Fritz Wotruba, a well known sculptor in Vienna, and ultimately won a Grand Prix in Paris of 1937.
Anna was married in 1920, when she was only 16, to a young conductor named Rupert Kollar, which quickly fell apart and they divorced shortly after. Moving to Berlin to study art, she married Ernst Krenek, a composer, in 1924. 11 months later, they divorced after Krenek had an affair with a woman named Alma Moodie. In 1929, she married a publisher named Paul Zsolnay, who she had her first daughter with and named Alma, after her mother (not the woman her previous husband had an affair with). She then divorced Zsolnay in 1934. During this time, she escaped Nazi Austria and fled for London in 1939, where she met another 
conductor named Anatole Fistoulari whom she married in 1943. She then had her second daughter, named Mariana, and moved to California where she divorced her fourth husband in 1956. She then moved to Spoleto Italy in 1969 and married her fifth husband Albrecht Joseph in 1970. Documents report that she stated that she had been looking for true love her whole life, and finally found it in Joseph, but she decidedly left him in 1977 at the age of 75 so that they “might both progress” since they paid too much attention to one another.
She spent the rest of her life independently, visiting her daughters and continuing her art. She then died in Hampstead due to natural causes in 1988 while visiting her daughter Marina.
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