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Biography

Wenner was born in the first quarter (January, February or March) of 1884 in

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, England, to Swiss parents, although in later life she made a wide array of claims about the specific year of her birth within the 1880s. She had an exhibit of her work at Pisco's Gallery in Vienna in about 1908. Wenner, who studied with Sir Walter Crane in England, and

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in Vienna, in Munich and in Paris, was also said to be a talented harpist. Wenner was married in 1911 near the family home in Alderley Edge to a captain of the

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and gentleman in waiting to the King of Württemberg, Adolf Conrad von Sternenfels, . Von Sternenberg was elsewhere described as adjutant general to the king of Battenberg. The couple divorcedThe National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Petitions For Naturalization From the U.s. District Court For the Southern District of New York, 1897-1944; Series: M1972; Roll: 690 in approximately 1920 and the Baroness moved to the United States in 1922, where she became a naturalized citizen in 1931. She acknowledged that her

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made her title null and void but nonetheless she was always referred to in print as Baroness Wenner. Wenner spent some time in New York but primarily lived and worked primarily in

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, Illinois. Her residence of many years was the Italian Court Building at 619 N. Michigan on the Magnificent Mile. A suitcase stolen from the vestibule of her apartment in 1940 contained of jewelry, including a platinum bracelet set with diamonds and sapphire, and a string of pearls. When the Italian Court Building was due to be demolished in the late 1960s, she moved to the St. Clair Hotel. She had a large collection of crystal and porcelain objects of the

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period that she sold to a Florida museum. Wenner painted Col.

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and her children,

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of Illinois, Professor Steinmetz,

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, Harold F. McCormick, William Hohenzollern,

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, Maria Jeritza, and Charles Curtis. Baroness Wenner worked in oils, pastels, charcoal, and pen and ink.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wenner, Violet B. 1884 births 1970 deaths Artists from Manchester Artists from Chicago 20th-century American women artists American portrait painters American people of Swiss descent English emigrants to the United States

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