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All pages for statues and sculptors are listed alphabetically (see below); click the plus sign next to the letter to pop out the directory.

An asterisk denotes a bust.

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Other Resources
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The city maintains an excellent online catalog of the more than 1,000 monuments to be found in city parks.

The just-as excellent Web site forgotten-ny.com has several sections running down the statues of Manhattan.

Dianne Durante, author of the somewhat esoteric “Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan,” maintains an excellent Web site of her essays and other musings on what she calls representational art.

There are 97 busts in the Hall of Fame of Great Americans at Bronx Community College. Because there is already an excellent online tour of the hall, those memorials get only a passing mention here.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum supports an amazing online inventory of sculptures across the country.

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Henry Baerer

Henry Baerer is credited with several sculptures in New York, including the statue of the Civil War general Gouverneur Kemble Warren in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, the bust of Ludwig von Beethoven in Prospect Park, and the statue of Gen. Edward B. Fowler in Fort Greene.

Heinrich Baerer was born in Kirchhain, Kurhessen, Germany, in 1837. He first came to America in 1854 and later returned to Germany to be a student at the Royal Academy in Munich. He died in the Bronx on Dec. 6, 1908. In December 2010, I received an e-mail from a Gudrun Kietzke of Hamburg, Germany, who said that Baerer was her great-great-uncle. Kietzke, while helping me clean up my dates, wrote that Baerer changed his name to Henry when he came to America the first time. “At the Royal Academy,” Kietzke wrote, Baerer has “the Martrikel No. 01777 at 28 March, 1862.”