Upcoming Marxhausen Exhibit

Hey everyone! I'm Abby, the new blogger for this site. I'm a new member of the Center for Liturgical Art team and among other things, one of my main jobs is to put together a show about Marxhausen. This show will focus on his liturgical/religious artwork, and we're especially hoping to feature works Marxy did in churches around the nation. In addition, there will be several pieces from Concordia University's collection.

If you visit the exhibit, not only will you find religious works, but you'll also get to learn about Marxhausen's life, career and unique artistic philosophy. Marxy was known for seeing the beauty in everyday life, and some of his found object works (which display this approach perfectly!) will be included in the exhibit.

The show will open in January in the Wolfram Gallery at the LCMS International Center in Kirkwood, Missouri, right outside St. Louis. Hopefully we'll get to plan some programming too - a talk about Marxy's art, or a showing of one of his movies. That's all still in the works.

For now, keep us in your prayers as we put together this show! It's going to be a great way to celebrate the amazing legacy of Marxhausen's life and his creativity. If you're interested in knowing more about the exhibit, or if you'd like to make a donation to help fund the show, please let me know at abbyjlange@gmail.com.

Welcoming a new writer!

I'm happy to welcome Abby Lange to the Marxhausen

blog. Abby is a graduate of Valparaiso University,

Reinhold's school.

You've seen posts on this blog featuring mysterious

works, ones which could be by Marxhausen or one

of his students. We're planning on moving this section

to facebook so that more people can see these works

and potentially help us identify the artist.

Also, I've started my own personal blog where I'll be

writing about how Marxhausen influences my own

work and the way I see the world.

This means that posts for this blog will feature more

of Marxhausen's own work.

Please visit the Marxhausen Fan Club page on

Facebook.

The Jones Bank Mural

This is my first attempt loading video directly to blogger. These were shot by Karl Marxhausen for the blog.

The documentary, the Koenig Connection had a quote by Reinhold describing this piece, which I'll post this Sunday, along with some of my own photos showing the whole mural.

The Art Wall

Most houses or schools have a blank wall in a hallway or basement that attracts fingerprints and is hard to keep clean anyway. Every house needs a wall that can be worked on. Ever since we had children, we have had a wall for them in the basement. The wall is 8 feet by 10 feet long where paintings, scribbles, drawings, birthday wishes, cartoons, doodles, are sandwiched between layers of papier mache and coats of paint. When the wall becomes saturated with images and words, a fresh coat of paint or paper made everything new again for new words and feelings...A home or school without a wall to work on is depriving its inhabitants of a privilege that even primitive man had when he drew pictographs on the walls of caves.

Last Saturday, I had an opportunity to meet Reinhold's son, Karl Marxhausen. We looked at Reinhold's mural in the campus center and talked about the work on the blog. I also had a chance to watch Karl do some filming. This is the wall in the home where Marxhausen raised his kids. Karl also filmed the mural in Jones bank and Janzow campus center. What I like about Karl's films is that they show details a regular photograph can't. Even if you got the opportunity to look at one of these works up close (which I'd encourage you to try if you get the chance) you might not notice some of the small details Karl focuses on in his videos.