Albert Weinert

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. He died on November 29, 1947, in his home studio on Grand Concourse in the Bronx.

• Name — Albert Weinert • Born — 13 June 1863 • Birthplace — Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony • Died — 29 November 1947 • Place of death — Bronx, New York • Education — Royal Academy of Art and Applied Art Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts • Known for — Sculpture • Illustration — Weinert's 1893 Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois

• 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 • 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 • Cecil Calvert Monument, Baltimore, 1908