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German-American sculptor (1863–1947)
Weinert's 1893
Haymarket Martyrs' Monument ,
Forest Home Cemetery ,
Forest Park, Illinois
Albert Weinert (June 13, 1863 – November 29, 1947) was a German-American sculptor.
Born in
Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony , Weinert attended the
Royal Academy of Art and Applied Art there
[1] and then the
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in
Brussels , Belgium.
[2]
In 1886, he emigrated to the United States, working first in
San Francisco before moving to
Chicago in 1892 to work on the
World's Columbian Exposition where he met fellow sculptor
Karl Bitter . After the fair, Weinert traveled with Bitter to New York City where he worked in Bitter's studio. He later relocated to
Washington, D.C. where, in April 1894, he was hired to work on the design of the
Thomas Jefferson Building of the
Library of Congress . He was paid $10 per day (equivalent to $352 in 2023) to oversee a crew of modelers and carvers.
[3]
He died on November 29, 1947, in his home studio on
Grand Concourse in
the Bronx .
[4]
Work
He produced the granite
dolphins carved on the
spandrels behind the bronze groups by
Perry 1898
[5]
Numerous details in the Library of Congress, notably in the Reading Room.
The
Battle of Lake George ,
Lake George Battlefield Park ,
Lake George, New York 1903
William McKinley Monument,
Toledo, Ohio , 1903
Stevens T. Mason ,
Detroit , 1908
[6]
Cecil Calvert Monument,
Baltimore , 1908
References
^ James, Juliet Helena Lumbard (1915).
Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts; Descriptive Notes on the Art of the Statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco . H. S. Crocker Company. p. 91. Retrieved September 20, 2020 .
^
Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Contemporary Medals: The American Numismatic Society, March, 1910 . American Numismatic Society. 1910. p. 356. Retrieved September 20, 2020 .
^ Cole, John Y.; Cole, John Young; Reed, Henry Hope; Small, Herbert (1997).
The Library of Congress: The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building . W. W. Norton & Company.
ISBN
978-0-393-04563-5 . Retrieved September 20, 2020 .
^
"ALBERT WEINERT, SCULPTOR, 84, DIES; Created Marble Group in City Hall of Records -- Did Many Statues and Memorials" .
The New York Times . December 1, 1947. Retrieved September 20, 2020 .
^ Small, Herbert, The Library of Congress: The Architecture and Decoration , Classical America, WW Norton & Company, New York, 1982 p. 36
^ Nawrocki, Dennis Alan, Art in Detroit Public Places , Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan, 1980
p. 27