Carl Paul Jennewein

Carl Paul Jennewein (December 2nd 1890 - February 23rd 1978) is a American Sculpteur , born with Stuttgart, which emigrated in the United States in 1907.

Beginning of career

It starts like apprentice, at 13 years, the museum of arts of Stuttgart, where it learns the techniques from the plaster, modelling and painting. Then, always like apprentice, it integrates sociéré of the sculptures architectural one Buhler & Lauter into New York and passes its evenings to be studied with the Art Students League off New York . The majority of its first works consist of mural frescos, as in 1912, the four frescos of the Woolworth Building; the first building which one will call " the cathedral of the commerce." In 1915, Jennewein is naturalized American and immediately joined the armed . However, in 1916, it receives an exemption to be useful with the honors because one has just given the to him Prix of Rome. It is about the one of the artistic prices most prestigious of the time and which will enable him to study with the American Academy of Rome during three years. It is in Rome that Jennewein turns, consequently, all its attention towards the sculpture.

Architectural sculptures

  • Lincoln Life Insurance Building with Strong Wayne (Indiana) 1923
  • Education Building, Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) 1931
  • British off Worsens Building with the Rockefeller Center with New York 1932
  • Fronton of the Philadelphia Museum Art 1933
  • Justice Department Building, Washington D.C 1934, where it carried out more than 50 element sculptural
  • Kansas City City Hall with Kansas City (Missouri) 1936
  • Finance Building, Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) 1938
  • Two stone pylons with the Brooklyn Library of New York 1939
  • Dauphin County Court, Harrisburg (Pennsylvania), outside and interior 1941
  • Fulton County Building Year with Atlanta 1950
  • West Virginia State Office Building with Charleston (Virginia-Western) 1950
  • Low reliefs, Capitole Washington D.C. 1950
  • Two interior panels with the White House, Washington D.C. 1954
  • Two monumental portraits for Rayburn Office Building, in Washington D.C. 1964

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