1. Marie Herndl was a 19th-century German artist who worked with stained glass.
11 Facts About Marie Herndl
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Marie Herndl earned a bronze medal at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 for her controversial work entitled "Queen of the Elves".
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Marie Herndl was born 22 June 1860, and raised in Munich.
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Marie Herndl went to the Royal Institute of Art and studied under Franz Xaver Zettler.
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Marie Herndl did an apprenticeship with the Gabriel Meyer Studio and one of her works entitled "Brunhilde at Worms" was sold to owners of a Bavarian castle.
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Candace Wheeler told Marie Herndl to cover at least the body of the central figure in the stained-glass portrait from "knees to the throat", but she refused.
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Marie Herndl convinced the exhibitors at the Electric building to have her work exhibited there.
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Marie Herndl wanted the government to purchase and display her George Washington piece.
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Marie Herndl was so persistent that in 1904 she tried to force her way into a home to approach President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Marie Herndl wanted to know if the President would be viewing her George Washington portrait.
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Marie Herndl was later released after the Secret Service determined that she was not a threat.