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Also Known As Robert, Edler von Musil
Born November 6, 1880 • Klagenfurt • Austria
Died April 15, 1942 (aged 61) • Geneva • Switzerland
Notable Works “The Man Without Qualities”
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Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
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Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
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Immermann, engraving by Franz Stüber, after a painting by Karl Friedrich Lessing
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Carl Zuckmayer.
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Gutzkow
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Sudermann, detail of an oil painting by Max Slevogt, 1927; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Hermann Sudermann
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Schickele
René Schickele
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Werfel, Franz
Franz Werfel
German writer
Portrait of Austrian author and playwright Thomas Bernhard in 1973, shown outdoors wearing a dark coat and looking slightly to the side.
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian writer
Clemens Brentano, detail of an etching by Ludwig Grimm, 1837
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