A picture by Anna Haller

 

Anna Haller was born in 1872 and was the 2nd of four children of Rudolf Haller and Anna née Gloor.  Two siblings died early. When Anna was 4 years old, her father died. In 1878 her mother married Adolf Weber from Menziken in Rupperswil. She had four more children, and in 1883 the family settled in Biel.  Anna did an apprenticeship from 1889 to 1898 in a studio for watch shell decoration, where she learned Damascus (surface treatment of metal, exchange, etching) and gold and silver decoration on steel. At the same time, she visited the arts and crafts department of the Technikum Biel.  Under Ferdinand Hüttenlocher, she was a graduate in the specialist class of the general drawing and modelling school of the Technikum Biel. After training in leather technology with Georg Hulbe in Hamburg in 1898, she became the first lecturer in Biel. From 1899 to 1907 she taught four hours on Saturdays.

As an employee of Albert Renggli's studio in Biel, where she had been working since 1899, in 1901 she and her half-brother Otto Weber realized the leather cut work on the seats of the Council of States in the National Council Hall of the Parliament building in Bern. She then worked in various relevant studios and later shifted to flower painting. Anna hosted exhibitions in Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Biel, etc. Her first flower cards were published by Meissner und Buch in Leipzig. Then she received a larger commission from the Oppacher brothers in Munich, which allowed her to go there with her half-sister Emilie 'Mili' Weber in 1905 and to pursue her studies in the large galleries. In 1914 she returned to Biel and painted maps and templates commissioned by Vouga & Cie, Edition Artistique Geneva. Because of her physical disability, she moved in 1916 to be with her half-brother, Emil Weber in Saas im Prätigau and later with Mili to St. Moritz. Here she devoted herself to painting alpine flowers. She has hosted exhibitions in Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Biel, etc. Her first flower cards were published by Meissner und Buch in Leipzig. Then she received a larger commission from the Oppacher brothers in Munich, which allowed her to go there with her half-sister Emilie 'Mili' Weber in 1905 and to pursue her studies in the large galleries. In 1914 she returned to Biel and painted maps and templates commissioned by Vouga & Cie, Edition Artistique Geneva. Because of her physical disability, she moved in 1916 to be with her half-brother, Emil Weber in Saas im Prätigau and later with Mili to St. Moritz. Here she devoted herself to painting alpine flowers. This hangs on my wall at home... Can anyone give me any information on the above picture by Anna Haller? Anna Haller studied flower painting in Munich and exhibited her studies of flowers widely in Switzerland. She worked and lived a good part of her life in the region around Biel. Anna Haller is listed in the major dictionaries of art, including the Benezit, and her works can be found in several museums including the Bern Museum of Fine Art. Source Information Anna Haller 1872 - 1924