Anna Mahler

Anna Justine Mahler (15 June 1904 - 3 June 1988) was an Austrian figurative sculptor born in Vienna, the second child of the composer Gustav Mahler and his wife Alma Schindler. Whilst largely self-taught, she studied painting briefly under Giorgio de Chirico in Rome and took lessons in sculpting from Fritz Wotruba in Vienna in the 1930s. From then on, she devoted herself to sculpture and was awarded the Grand Prix in Paris in 1937.

Anna Mahler fled Austria after the Anschluss of March 1938, first to London and then moving to California after the War. In 1951 in Los Angeles, she made the death mask of Arnold Schoenberg.  A major work from California is the ‘Tower of Masks’, a 15-foot-high limestone sculpture, now at the Murphy Sculpture Garden at UCLA. From 1969 Mahler had a studio in Spoleto, Italy. An Anna Mahler sculpture exhibition was organised and took place during the Salzburg Festival, July - August 1988, but the artist died in Hampstead before the opening and is buried at Highgate Cemetery.

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