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Studio: international art — 37.1906

DOI issue:
No. 156 (March, 1906)
DOI article:
Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0192

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was secularised in 1802.
In 1863 it was refounded
and given over to the
Benedictines by Katherina,
Princess of Hohenzollern,
and is now the centre of
a number of Benedictine
monasteries in England,
Germany, Austria, Portugal
and Belgium. The same
Princess had a dairy and
chapel built a little way off.
To carry out this work three
artists joined forces, who,
though not monks, had
sought seclusion within the
monastery walls and later
joined the order. These
were Desiderius Lenz, who

loch in Hohenzollern, and

Beuroner Kunstschule exhibited in public, and after studying art at Munich and Meiningen, occupied

this roused much interest. The members of this himself in painting and teaching; Gabriel Wiiger,

school are Benedictine monks, and take their name who was born in 1829 at Steckborn near Constance,

from the old Beuron Monastery on the upper Danube, and died in 1892 at Monte Cassino ; and Lukas

Originally founded by the brothers of St. Augus- Steiner, born at Schwyr in 1849. At the present

tine in 1077, the monastery, after many vicissitudes, time the Beuron School has about twenty members

APSE AT VIENNA SECESSION EXHIBITION
UPPER PART AND FONT BY F. ANDRI FRESCOES BY K. MULLER,

STAINED GLASS WINDOWS BY K. EDERER BEURONER KUNSTSCHULE,

EXECUTED BY R. GEYLING's ERBEN R. JETTMAR, M. LENZ, J.

ENGLEHART, AND F. KONIG
 
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