biography of Carl Paul JENNEWEIN (1890-1978)

Birth place: Stuttgart, Germany

Addresses: NYC, Bronx, NY

Profession: Sculptor, painter

Studied: ASL, 1907-09; Clinton Peters, 1910; Am. Acad., Rome, 1916-22 (Prix de Rome); Augustus Buhler; Flora Lauter

Exhibited: Arch Lg., 1912 (prize), 1927 (med.); AIC, 1921-39; NAD, 1924-47 (med., 1942), 1972 (Daniel Chester French Award); PAFA Ann., 1924-47 (gold med.,1932; med., 1939); Exh. Am. Sculpture, NSS, 1923; Fairmount Park AA, 1926 (prize); Concord AA, 1926 (med.); Grand Central Art Gal., 1927 (solo), 1935 (solo); Benjamin Clinedinst Mem. medal for achievement exceptional artistic merit in sculpture, 1967; Am. Numismatic Assn. art award, 1970

Member: NA (vice pres.); fellow, NSS (pres.); NIAL; Am. Inst. Arch.; Century Club; Audubon Artists; FA Comm., NYC; Beaux-Arts Inst. Arch.

Work: MMA; BMA; BM; CGA; Cincinnati AM; PAFA; PMA; Detroit Inst. Art; Houston Mus. FA; Finance Bldg., Harrisburg, PA; Herron AI; Dept. Justice Bldg., Wash., DC; Wadsworth Atheneum; Newark Mus.; Brookgreen Gardens, SC; Eastman Sch. Music, Rochester, NY; mem., Wash., DC; Providence, RI; Worcester, MA; Boston, MA; fountain, Wash., DC; Ravenna, Italy; Ft. Wayne, IN; MET, NYC; Kingston, NY; mem. fountain, Plymouth, MA; Mt. Pleasant, NY; Arlington Mem. Bridge, Wash., DC; Tours, France; Harvard; Elks Club, Brooklyn; Rockefeller Center; Mellon Inst., Pittsburgh; WFNY, 1939; Tomb of the Unknowns (coin medal), Nat. Commemorative Soc., 1966; portrait plaques of Donald Wood Gilbert, 1967 & Louis A. Alexander, 1968, Univ. Rochester; ten portrait models of astronauts, Texas C of C, 1969; Hall of Fame medals of Horace Mann & John Lothrop Motley, 1969-70; John F. Kennedy Medal (portrait), Kennedy Center Performing Arts, Wash., DC, 1971.

Comments: Well-known in the 1920s for bronze sculptures of classical subjects.

Sources: WW73; WW47; Fort, The Figure in American Sculpture, 204-05 (w/repro.); Falk, Exh. Record Series.