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Alma Schindler was born in Vienna, Austria ( then Austria-Hungary ), to the prominent landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler and his wife Anna von Bergen, in 1879.

Although Alma later claimed to have grown up in a privileged environment, the family was only moderately successful.

After her father's death ( 1892 ), her mother married her late husband's former pupil Carl Moll, who was a co-founder of the Vienna Secession.