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background both he and the more idealistic Lenz moved to the belief that artists should work together in a
Catholic community to produce sacred art suitable for the devotional and liturgical environment. Around 1866 a plan for an 'Ideal Church' was produced, and in 1868 they met
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for the painting were prepared, and together with
Fridolin Steiner they returned to Beuron in May 1869. The work was completed in summer 1871 and the Chapel of St Maurus in the Fields was dedicated in September. Wüger took the monastic
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Lenz deplored the fact that modern art had lost direction, no longer valued naturalist representation, and seemed prey to artists' random individual preferences. Studying the work of the
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Meiningen in 1855-56, and then back in Munich as an independent sculptor, in 1859 Lenz became Professor of Sculpture at the School of Applied Art in
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Gregorian Chant as performed by the monks of the Abbey of St Martin, Beuron, under the direction of Pater Dr. Maurus Pfaff O.S.B., were recorded by
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F. Mazzaferro (Translator), 'Desiderius Lenz, Canone divino. L’arte e la regola della scuola di Beuron, Edited by Paolo
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Catalogue to the
Exhibition 'Avantgardist und Malermönch: Peter Lenz und die Beuroner Kunstschule', Städtisches Museum Engen 2007 (Quensen, Hildesheim 2007).
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