Romantic Career
Alma's lively social interactions in her youth included friendships with the artists of the Vienna Secession, among them Gustav Klimt. As a young woman she had a series of flirtations, including Klimt, theater director Max Burckhard and composer Alexander von Zemlinsky.
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