Desiderius Lenz

Peter ( Desiderius ) Lenz ( born March 12, 1832 in Haigerloch; † January 31, 1928 in Beuron monastery ) was a German Benedictine, painter, architect and sculptor, and one of the founders and spokesmen of the Beuronese art school.

Life

After an apprenticeship in the carpentry workshop of his father Lenz went as a pupil of Max von Widnmanns and later Wilhelm von Kaulbach at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and then later (after a short stint as a freelance sculptor ) in 1859 as a professor of sculpture at the School of Applied Arts to be appointed in Nuremberg. He later broke his successful career as a sculptor, to compete at the intercession of Peter Cornelius a Prussian state scholarship to a stay in Italy. In 1866 created the first designs for an ideal church plan. 1868-70 Lenz could react with the contract for the construction of St. Maurus in the field - chapel near the Benedictine monastery Beuron the first time his concept of art into reality. After several failed Bride commercials, he emerged in 1872 to the monastery of Beuron, where numerous works of art and designs were created. In 1878 was the final connection to the Benedictines, 1891, he received the Subdiakonatsweihe. Together with his friends and brothers Gabriel Wüger and Lukas Steiner he is regarded as the founder of Beuronese art school, which shaped the ecclesiastical art for decades to come.

Works (selection)

  • Relieftondo Holy Family, 1857 ( Beuron monastery archives )
  • Sculpture of a Pietà, 1858/59 ( whereabouts unbek )
  • Restoration of 3 Stations of the Cross Adam Kraft in Nuremberg, 1859-62
  • 2 tombs in cemeteries Nuremberg 1862

Designs

  • Chapel in Korschellen ( Ostpr. ), 1866 f
  • Altar in S. Alfonso, Rome
  • Mount Cemetery in Schlanders / Südtirol 1866-68
  • Sculpture of a Holy Family, 1872-74 ( Kolping Haus Stuttgart )
  • Tabernacle for the high altar Beuronese, 1874 ( Beuron monastery archives )
  • Features a makeshift church in Meßkirch, 1875
  • Numerous drawings in the "Atelier Solution " as well as in the sketch - and notebooks by Lenz in the monastery archives Beuron.

Writings

  • On the Aesthetics of Beuronese school. Vienna in 1897; 2nd edition Beuron 1927. (French and dutch. Überss. )
  • Aesthetics, geometry and ecclesiastical art, 1914 (not supplied )
  • The canon, in: Benedictine monthly 3 (1921 ), pp. 363-77.
  • Festschrift and hard poems for the 80th birthday of our Altreichskanzlers Otto von Bismarck. Heidenheim 1895.
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