Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
Thomas Mann (1875-1955). Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European […]
Henriette Mankiewicz-Tauber (1852-1906)
Henriette Mankiewicz-Tauber (1852-1906). Profession: Artist. Residences: Relation to Mahler: Friend. Correspondence with Mahler: Yes. 17-05-1900, Year 1900. Born: 18-09-1852 Vienna, Austria. Died: 30-06-1906 Vienna, Austria. Aged 53. Buried: 03-07-1906 Dobling cemetery, Vienna. Grave 34-2-28. Re-buried: 20-02-1907 Dobling cemetery, Vienna. Grave 34-4-32. She was handicaped. Mahler went te see her often and sent her letters. Mahler asked Henriette […]
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864-1933)
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864-1933). Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh was a Scottish artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the “Glasgow Style” during the 1890s. Born Margaret Macdonald, at Tipton, near Wolverhampton, her father was a colliery manager and engineer. Margaret and her younger sister Frances both attended the Orme Girls’ School, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. […]
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. He was a designer in the post impressionist movement and also the main representative of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had considerable influence on European design. This style was admired by Mackintosh because of: its restraint and […]
Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)
Edward MacDowell (1860-1908). Profession: Composer, pianist. Residences: New York, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Boston. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 18-12-1860 New York, America. Died: 23-01-1908 New York, America. Buried: 00-00-0000 MacDowell Colony, Hillcrest Farm, Peterborough, New Hampshire, America. Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for […]
Anatoly Lyadov (1855-1914)
Anatoly Lyadov (1855-1914). Profession: Conductor, composer, pianist, violinist. Residences: Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 11-05-1855 St Petersburg, Russia. Died: 28-08-1914 Novgorod, Russia. Buried: 00-00-0000 St Petersburg, Alexander-Nevski cloister, Russia. Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov or Liadov (Russian: ????????? ??????????????? ??????) was a Russian composer, teacher and conductor. Lyadov was born in St Petersburg into a family […]
Karl Lueger (1844-1910)
Karl Lueger (1844-1910). Karl Lueger was an Austrian politician, mayor of Vienna, and leader and cofounder of the Austrian Christian Social Party. He is credited with the transformation of the city of Vienna into a modern city. The populist and anti-Semitic politics of his Christian Social Party are sometimes viewed as a model for Hitler’s […]
Josef Lowy (1834-1902)
Josef Lowy (1834-1902). Profession: Photographer, court photographer. Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 16-08-1834 Pressburg (Bratislava), Slovakia, Died: 24-03-1902 Vienna, Austria. Buried: 26-03-1902 Central cemetery, new or old Jewish cemetery, Vienna, Austria. Josef Löwy was an Austrian painter, publisher, producer and Imperial and Royal court photographer. In 1848, Löwy to Vienna, where […]
Albert Lortzing (1801-1851)
Albert Lortzing (1801-1851). Profession: Opera composer. Residences: Germany. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 23-10-1801 Berlin, Germany. Died: 21-01-1851 Buried: 00-00-0000 Gustav Albert Lortzing was a German composer, actor and singer. He is considered to be the main representative of the German Spieloper, a form similar to the French opéra comique, which grew out […]
Adolf Loos (1870-1933)
Adolf Loos (1870-1933). Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect. He was influential in European Modern architecture, and in his essay Ornament and Crime he abandoned the aesthetic principles of the Vienna Secession. In this and many other essays he contributed to the elaboration of a body of theory and […]