Gabriel Wüger
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Gabriel Wüger was an artist and a Benedictine monk. He was one of the founders of the Beuron Art School in Germany in the late nineteenth century.
Stabat Mater by Gabriel Wüger, 1868.
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.
Gabriel Wüger
…Wüger was born Jakob Wüger on 2 December 1829 in Canton Thurgau in Switzerland. In 1863 Wüger and two other artists drawn to the Benedictine teaching, Peter Lenz and Fridolin Steiner, travelled to Rome to work with the artists of the Nazarene movement. Like the Nazarenes, these artists who were to become known…
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.