Souvenir year book and parish guide of the Catholic Church of StJohn the Baptist ..Hot Springs, Arkansas. . with the most famous returned to Stans 1840. He undertook many journeysin the interest of art; 1842 he went to Dussaldorf, 1843 toParis, 1845 to Munich and 1851 to Belgium. In this and in later times Deschwanden developed thatwonderfully fertile activity, which produced in fifty yearsover 3,000 paintings. These pictures wandered off into thefive parts of the globe, into cathedrals and simple chapels,into palaces and common houses and cabins. Paintings wereordered from Deschwan
Souvenir year book and parish guide of the Catholic Church of StJohn the Baptist ..Hot Springs, Arkansas. . with the most famous returned to Stans 1840. He undertook many journeysin the interest of art; 1842 he went to Dussaldorf, 1843 toParis, 1845 to Munich and 1851 to Belgium. In this and in later times Deschwanden developed thatwonderfully fertile activity, which produced in fifty yearsover 3,000 paintings. These pictures wandered off into thefive parts of the globe, into cathedrals and simple chapels,into palaces and common houses and cabins. Paintings wereordered from Deschwanden by Catholics and protestants, bysecular and clerical princes f. i. Pius IX., Napoleon III., theEmperor of Austria, the Queen of Wurtenberg, the Princeof Hohenzollern, the Count of Chambord, etc. Like all greatartists he was criticized and vituperated a great deal, espec-ially by such who could not hold a candlp to his skill. Desch-wanden painted with an almost indescribable speed. Undera Madonna, 75 centimeters high and 60 centimeters wide,there is written by him: 10th July, 1867; sketched and Q 6O H PQO«Q GO rp 03 (>(). painted in two hours—Deschwanden. We could adducemany similar examples. Nobody ever had the talent topaint the charms of innocence, the unsullied youthful beauty,the piety, the supernatural, such deep felt beautiful devo-tional images as did P. Deschwanden. The DeschwandenAngels are famous and they are typical of the angelic, child-like mind of the artist. Nevertheless, he succeeded also inrepresenting vice. When he had finished within 15 days in1866 his largest work, the last judgment in the church of in Zug, a painting with about 60 figures, the famousartist, Gall Moral, then living in Zug, tapped him on theshoulders, saying: Paul, Paul, I had not expected of youthat you could paint the devil so admirably., Deschwanden, was short, slender and of delicate health,very religious, but withal a joyful and witty companion. Hesang well, play
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