(Bern 1880 – 1950 Zürich)
After studying architecture and painting in Stuttgart and Munich, Haller turned to sculpture in Rome in 1905. There he developed an interest in Etruscan art, which influenced his understated sculptures. A stay in Paris brought him into the circle of the Café du Dome around Henri Matisse. With the outbreak of World War I, Haller moved to Zurich, but also lived in Berlin intermittently between 1921 and 1923.