Albert Weinert Explained
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 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
Notes and References
- Book: James . Juliet Helena Lumbard . Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts; Descriptive Notes on the Art of the Statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco . 1915 . H. S. Crocker Company . 91 . 20 September 2020 . en.
- Book: Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Contemporary Medals: The American Numismatic Society, March, 1910 . 1910 . American Numismatic Society . 356 . 20 September 2020 . en.
- Book: Cole . John Y. . Cole . John Young . Reed . Henry Hope . Small . Herbert . The Library of Congress: The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building . 1997 . W. W. Norton & Company . 978-0-393-04563-5 . 20 September 2020 . en.
- News: ALBERT WEINERT, SCULPTOR, 84, DIES; Created Marble Group in City Hall of Records -- Did Many Statues and Memorials . 20 September 2020 . . 1 December 1947.
- 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
