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- Title
Martin Eugen Beck und die Anfänge der Erneuerung der evangelischen Paramentik in Sachsen im 19. Jahrhundert.
- Authors
Kröger, Rüdiger
- Abstract
Kröger first describes the course of Beck's life. He was born in Herrnhut in 1833 and from 1858 worked with his father in his pottery. From 1868 he set up his own business as a designer of church art. He died in 1903. At the exhibition of church art and industrial products in Bad Hohenstein in 1863 he exhibited ornamental drawings and terracotta works. In 1864 he was responsible for furnishing the Moravian worship hall in Rosendorf, Bohemia. In that year he also made contact with the Lower Saxon Church Textile Association, founded in 1862 in the former convent of St Marienberg. The driving force of the exhibition, the theologian Moritz Meurer, recognized Beck's talent and directed him towards the production of church textiles. Meurer was the editor of the Saxon Church and School Newspaper and wrote many articles promoting a renewal of church art. He involved Beck in the furnishing of the new Lutheran church building in Oberwiesenthal and in the church textiles exhibitions held in Neuendettelsau and Dresden in 1867, with the result that Beck soon became 'quite simply the designer in the renewal of Protestant church textiles', also for the workshops in Neuendettelsau and Marienberg. Kröger goes on to introduce some of Beck's works.
- Subjects
LITURGICAL textiles; MORAVIAN Church; MORAVIANS; MEURER, Moritz; PROTESTANT churches; CHURCH renewal
- Publication
Unitas Fratrum, 2017, Issue 75, p105
- ISSN
0344-9254
- Publication type
Article