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Pediment, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Carl Paul Jennewein (December 2, 1890–February 23, 1978) was a German-born American sculptor.

Jennewein was born in Stuttgart in Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1907.

He was apprenticed with the firm of Buhler and Lauter in New York where he received his early training. He took evening classes at the Art Students League of New York. Much of his early work was as a muralist, including in 1912 four murals for the Woolworth Building; the first building to be called "the Cathedral of Commerce."

In 1915 Jennewein became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Soon afterward he entered the United States Army. In 1916 his tour was cut short when he was awarded an honorable discharge after receiving the Prix de Rome, a highly sought-after art award. This allowed him to study at the American Academy in Rome for the next three years; in Rome Jennewein turned his attention to sculpture.

Eagle, Federal Building, New York City

• Lincoln Life Insurance Building (Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1923)
• Education Building (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1931)
• British Empire Building at Rockefeller Center (Manhattan, 1932)
• Pediment, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1933)
• Justice Department Building - over 50 separate sculptural elements and served as the overall design consultant, in collaboration with Zantzinger, Borie and Medary (Washington, D.C., 1934)
• Kansas City City Hall (Kansas City, Missouri, 1936)
• Finance Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1938)
• Two stone pylons at the Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn, 1939)
• Dauphin County Court, exterior and interior (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1941)
• Fulton County Building Annex (Atlanta, Georgia, 1950)
• West Virginia State Office Building (Charleston, West Virginia, 1950)
• Two panels inside the White House (Washington, D.C., 1954)
• Two monumental figures for the Rayburn House Office Building (Washington, D.C., 1964)

The work that he is probably best known for today, and which garnered him much praise when it was unveiled in 1933, was the polychromed figures in the pediment of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Jennewein was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949.

In the course of his career Jennewein produced at least five monumental eagles: one at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, another on the Arlington Memorial Bridge, connecting Arlington with Washington, D.C., the third on the Federal Office Building in New York, the fourth, a Spanish-American War Memorial in Rochester, New York.

The fifth was at Ardennes Memorial located in Neuville-en-Condroz in Belgium. He also produced somewhat smaller eagles for the gates of the Embassy of the United States in Paris.

Education Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Jennewein's sculpture, which never strayed too far from the classical ideals that he had come to so admire while in Rome, became increasingly modernized and his style comfortably fits into the Greco Deco category.

Jennewein's work received some attention when his Noyes Armillary Sphere disappeared during a riot in Washington, D.C. in the turbulent 1960s. It has not yet been recovered.

Jennewein died on February 23, 1978.

In 2002, two of Jennewein's semi-nude figures in the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C.were hidden by a curtain. This has been linked to the exposed breast on the female figure, Spirit of Justice (the male counterpart is Majesty of Law). In 2005 the curtain was removed.

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