Robert E. Webber Violin Wisconsin USA 1940

Robert E. Webber (1865 – 1947) is a violin maker and an expert repairer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Webber was born in 1865 in Germany where he learned his woodworking skills under his father’s training who creates carriages. He received formal training in violin making later before he migrated to the United States in 1888. There he started his violin workshop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he remained until the age of 82 and died in 1947.