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Emil Jakob Schindler (1842-1892)
painter & Alma´s father
Alma worshipped her father, and was just thirteen when he
died. Her loss was to mark her subsequent, particularly married,
life by an almost incestuous quest for the lost father figure.
Alma´s father was an artist and dreamer who paid attention
to nothing but his painting. Light, rays of sunshine, dark
shadows, fog and moonlight gave life to his work. He wrote
on himself: »My collection of painted canvases and boards
represents the small result of great inner struggles and passions,
jokes begotten of bitter tears, and elegies born from smiles.«
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