Industry and Agriculture by Carl Paul Jennewein - NY, NY
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Industry and Agriculture by Carl Paul Jennewein are a pair of Art Deco relief sculptures on either side of the entrance to One Rockefeller Plaza main entrance in midtown Manhattan.
Waymark Code: WMN1W1
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 12/09/2014
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Carl Paul Jennewein was born in Stuttgart, Germany on December 2, 1890. He immigrated to the United States in 1907 and became an American Citizen in 1915.At the age of seventeen, he immigrated to the United States in 1907.
The well known sculptor was an apprenticed with the firm of Buhler and Lauter in New York while studying at the Art Students League of New York. He began his career as a muralist and then, after being awarded the prestigious Rome Award, studied sculpture at the American Academy in Rome for the three years. He returning to America and in 1928 he open his own studio in the Bronx, NY. He remained there until his death on February 22, 1978.
During the Great Depression he was commissioned to create several sculptures for as architectural ornamentation for newly constructed commercial complex at Rockefeller Center. His work Industry and Agriculture was created in 1937 and flanks the main entrance to One Rockefeller Plaza.
These two 10' by 4' gilded sculptures of two idealized, heroic size men are allegorical representations of industry and agriculture. Bare-chested Industry is stand while looking over his left shoulder. His right forearm is resting on an unseen support. In his right hand is a sledge hammer with the hammer on the ground and his hand on top of the handle. Bare-chested Agriculture is standing while looking over his right shoulder. He is holding scythe in his right hand and and gesturing at four stalks of wheat with his open left hand.
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