Heritage Stone

  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 i n 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 s...