Albert Weinert

Haymarket Martyrs' Monument

Albert Weinert American sculptor (June 13, 1863 - November 29, 1947)

Born in Leipzig, Germany, Weinert attended the Royal Academy there and then the École des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium. In 1886 he immigrated to the United States, settling first in San Francisco and then New York City.^[1]

Work

• Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, German Waldheim Cemetery, Chicago, 1893
• The Court of Neptune Fountain, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

He produced the granite dolphins carved on the spandrels behind the bronze groups by Perry 1898 ^[2]

• Numerous details in the Library of Congress, notably in the Reading Room.
• Battle of Lake George Monument, Lake George Battlefield Park, Lake George, New York 1903
• William McKinley Monument, Toledo, Ohio, 1903
• Stevens T. Mason statue, Detroit, 1908 ^[3]
• Cecil Calvert Monument, Baltimore, 1908

References

1. Opitz, Glenn B., Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Books, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1988
2. Small, Herbert, The Library of Congress: The Architecture and Decoration, Classical America, WW Norton & Company, New York, 1982 p. 36
3. Nawrocki, Dennis Alan, Art in Detroit Public Places, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan, 1980 p. 27