Christian Wahl is a public artwork by Italian artist Gaetano Trentanove located in Lake Park, which is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.The bronze bust of Milwaukee businessman Christian Wahl was created in 1903, and is set atop a red granite pedestal.The bronze bust of Christian Wahl depicts a kindly balding older gentleman sporting a beard and mustache, and wearing an overcoat, suit and tie.The sculpture sits on a red granite base with an inscription on the back stating: "He gave / his ripest years and study / to the parks / rewarded alive / by / grateful remembrance"."[2] When Wahl died in 1901, Der Herald, Milwaukee's German-language newspaper, stated that his altruistic labor deserved a monument, and the city's citizens agreed.