Grete wiesenthal biography of williams

Austrian dancer and choreographer who developed new dance forms based on the Viennese waltz and by 1914 had become an international star as the "ambassador of waltz." Born Margarete Wiesenthal in Vienna on December 9, 1885; died in Vienna on June 22, 1970; daughter of Franz Wiesenthal (a painter) and Rosa (Ratkovsky) Wiesenthal; had one brother and five sisters, including Elsa, Berta and Martha Wiesenthal; married Erwin Lang, in June 1910 (divorced 1923); married Nils Silfverskjöld (a Swedish physician), in 1923 (divorced 1927); children: son, Martin.

Born in Vienna in 1885 into an artistic family (her father was a successful academic painter), Grete Wiesenthal grew up at the center of the artistic and intellectual life of late imperial Austria.

Avant-garde culture would be central to her career, but she began her life as a dancer within the traditions of ballet as it flourished in late 19th-century Vienna. Grete and her five sisters and brother