19th and 20th Century Sculpture
19th and 20th Century Sculpture
Auction Closed
December 11, 11:50 AM GMT
Estimate
35,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
ALBERT WEINERT
American
1863 - 1947
ALLEGORY OF MUSIC
signed and dated: A. WEINERT. SC. / 1924
white marble
196 by 110cm., 77⅛ by 43¼in
Albert Weinert moved to the United States in 1886, after attending the Royal Academy in Leipzig and the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He lived in San Francisco for a while, but finally settled in New York, opening a studio in the Bronx. Weinert is the author of several public monuments across the United States, including the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument in Chicago. The present lifesize marble owes much to earlier Neoclassicism, and further appears to have been inspired by the famous Cantoria (singers' gallery) by Luca della Robbia, originally in the Duomo in Florence.