Albert Weinert

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Tomb of the anarchist victims of a judicial murder in the Haymarket Riot case in Chicago.
On the base of the statue are the words:

"The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today. (The day will come when our silence will be stronger than the voices that are being strangled today.) "

- Formula attributed to journalist August Spies .

Albert Weinert (born June 13, 1863 in Leipzig , † November 29, 1947 in the Bronx ) was an American sculptor and plasterer .

Life

Albert Weinert was the son of Augusta Gebhard and AJ Eduard Weinert's son. In childhood he modeled animals out of bread. He attended the school in Leipzig where a teacher recognized his extraordinary talent in drawing and modeling and, against the initial will of his parents, insisted that Weinert join the Academy of Fine Arts . At the academy, he made a living from making portraits of his friends and relatives.After a four-year study visit to the academy with Melchior zur Strasse , he traveled through Holland and Belgium and studied sculpture with Charles van der Stappen , professor of sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts , Brussels. In 1884, due to the imminent death of his father, he was called back to Leipzig, where, in addition to his calling as a sculptor, he worked as a poet. At this time, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was among his circle of friends . In 1886 he returned to the United States, where he first settled in San Francisco , California, which Theodor Kirchhoff had introduced to him in a letter. Weinert began a new artistic career in California, his first notable work was a memorial to Andrew Jackson Stevens (1833–1888), Master Mechanic and Superintendent of Motive Power in Sacramento . The statue was unveiled on Thanksgiving Day, 1889.

In 1892 he was commissioned to build the tomb of the anarchist victims of a judicial murder in the case of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago, which was unveiled in 1893. The group represents a scene from Ferdinand Freiligrath's poem "The Revolution":

  • The hero, beaten to death by the tyrant in his mountain house
  • the daughter, who stands by his downcast figure in an attitude of the highest defiance, her right arm, with a clenched fist, in front of her breast, while with her left she places a wreath on the brow of the prostrate figure.

In 1891 he was a member of an artistic working group which was awarded the contract to decorate the exhibition halls for the World's Columbian Exposition .

Numerous orders for busts and portrait statues followed, as well as a battle memorial for the Confederates in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago. Weiert's reputation grew with each new work. In 1894 he received the order for sculptural decorations on the new building of the Library of Congress .

After completing this work, Weinert settled in New York in 1896, where he continued his art, performing numerous portraits and battle scenes, and designing a memorial to the Battle of Lake George , which the New York Department of the General Society of Colonial Wars near the lake George built. He also designed a plaque to commemorate the inauguration as governor of George Clinton in 1777, who built the Colonial Dames of America in Kingston .

On November 27, 1889, he married Ann Eliza, eldest daughter of Captain Oliver Nielsen (* Norway), who lived in California. They had two children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] , Monument with sculpture of AJ Stevens on top and his name at bottom. Plaque on front says, "Dedicated to a friend of labor by his coworkers Nov. 28, 1889." Located in Plaza Park (now Cesar Chavez Park), [2]
  2. ^ Ferdinand Freiligrath , The Revolution
  3. ^ Library of Congress , [3]
  4. ↑ James Terry White, The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1900, p. 370
personal data
SURNAME Weinert, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1947
Place of death New York City