Beuron Art School

As Beuronese art school (also Beuronese school) is a group of artists called, which was founded in 1868 in the Abbey Beuron at Sigmaringen to the renewal of Catholic ecclesiastical art. The school was based heavily on the Egyptian, Early Christian and Byzantine Art and worked throughout stimulating rather than really refreshing. In an effort to revive a new religious art, she continued the basic ideas of the Nazarene.

Stimulator and spokesmen were the architect, painter and sculptor Father Desiderius Lenz (born Peter Lenz, * 1832 in Haigerloch, † 1928 in Beuron ), the Kaulbach students and convert Father Gabriel Wüger (born Jacob Wüger; * 1829 in Steckborn; † 1892 in Monte Cassino ) and Father Lukas Steiner (born Fridolin Steiner, * 1849 in Ingenbohl / Schwyz, † 1906 in Beuron ).

Lenz had received from the Princess Catherine of Hohenzollern- Sigmaringen the contract to build the St. Maurus Chapel at Beuron and pulled the dressing added (1868-1870) his fellow colleagues. All three went into the Beuron in the sequence. Together they painted the Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino 1874-1879 also made ​​. More work can be found in the Mercy Chapel. Certificates can be found in the form of murals even in Beuronese streetscape. Under the pediment of the dilapidated monastery square still are several depictions of angels. The monastery courtyard opposite, there are paintings on the house shepherd. These date from the summer of 1910 by Karl Caspar ( 1870-1956 ) one of the most important representatives of religious art in the first half of the 20th century.

According to Hubert Krins (Tübingen) the work of the Beuronese art school were already discredited 100 years ago. Many works have been destroyed. Even in Beuron testimonies of this art movement were removed in the course of a restoration of the Baroque appearance of the monastery church.

Another representative of the Beuronese art school was Willibrord January Verkade (1868-1946), who belonged to the group of artists of the Nabis. He learned from the decoration of the Gabriel Church in Prague Desiderius Lenz know.

Brother Notker Becker, OSB (1883-1978) created late works of this art movement.

Buildings

The following buildings were built or remodeled with the direct participation of the founders of Beuronese school:

  • Abbey church ( after the Second World War, however, largely rebarockisiert ) and Grace Chapel of the Abbey Beuron
  • Maurus Chapel at Beuron
  • Monte Cassino
  • Emmaus Monastery in Prague
  • Gabriel Monastery in Prague
  • Heart of Jesus Church in Meßkirch (1875, today the Sacred Heart Home )
  • Abbey of St. Hildegard ( Rüdesheim am Rhein)
  • Chapel Räckelwitz b. Kamenz (1883-1885)

Numerous designs were never carried out. The number of Nachfolgebauten that were influenced by ideas of Beuronese art school is to survey large and on the instantaneous state of research hardly. You are in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, United States and even Brazil.

Crypt in Monte Cassino

Grace Chapel ( built onto the north side of the abbey church Beuronese )

The St. Maurus Chapel at Beuron

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