File this under “WHY?”
Writer and composer Alma Mahler came from an artistic family. Her father was landscape artist Emil Jakob Schindler. After his death, Alma’s mother married Carl Moll, one of the founders of the Vienna Secession avant garde art movement and a former student of Schindler. Alma received her first kiss from Gustav Klimt and later married the composer Gustav Mahler. She later married Walter Gropius, an architect and one of the founders of the Bauhaus movement, and poet and playwright Franz Werfel.
Most curious was her relationship with artist Oskar Kokoschka. By all reports, Kokoschka was a horrible human being. Bad enough, but when their relationship ended, he commissioned a life size doll in Mahler’s resemblance…or as close as dollmakers in the early 20th century could get to life-like using wool.
Hard to believe this might have been intended as a sex doll. Eventually, Kokoschka tired of painting and drawing the effigy, so he beheaded and destroyed it.
Not sure where you can use that in your writing, but if you can…wow.
