Desiderius Lenz
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Peter Lenz, afterwards Desiderius Lenz, was a German artist who became a Benedictine monk. Together with Gabriel Wüger, he founded the Beuron Art School.
A Jubilee St. Benedict Medal by Desiderius Lenz, made for the 1400th anniversary of the birth of St. Benedict in 1880
A pencil portrait of Desiderius Lenz (then Peter Lenz) in 1860 by Gabriel Wüger (then Jakob Wüger).
The Chapel of St Maurus at Beuron, constructed 1868-1871, an iconic project for the Beuron School.
Beuron school
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The Beuron school was an art movement founded by a confederation of Benedictine monks in Germany in the late 19th century.
Desiderius Lenz
…Peter Lenz (1832–1928), afterwards Desiderius Lenz, was a German artist who became a Benedictine monk. Together with Gabriel Wüger, he founded the Beuron Art School. Peter Lenz was born in 1832 in Haigerloch, Baden-Württemberg. From 1849 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich as a pupil of the painter and…
Stabat Mater (1868) by Gabriel Wuger