{geni:about_me} Grete and [http://www.alma-mahler.at/engl/almas_life/almas_life.html Alma] Schindler´s mother, [http://www.alma-mahler.at/engl/almas_life/bergen.html Anna von Bergen], came to Vienna from her native city of Hamburgas 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. When Alma was two years old, she acquired asister, Grete . . . .

Grete was the child of the painter Julius Victor Berger, who was trained by Emil Jakob Schindler.