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Anna von Bergen (1857-1938)
singer & Alma´s mother
Alma´s mother came to Vienna from her native city of
Hamburg as operetta singer. Her girlish charm and cheerful
nature immediately caught the eye of renowned landscape painter
Emil Schindler. On 31st August 1879 she bore him their daughter
Alma. Outwardly, Almaâs mother was the most faithful
of all wives, but when Alma was two years old, she acquired
a sister, Grete, who was the child of a syphilitic father
and later the victim of euthanasia under the Nazis. After
Schindler´s death, Alma´s mother married the young
painter Carl Moll, with whom she had been having an affair
for a considerable time.
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