Werner Beutler

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Werner Beutler (born December 18, 1924 in Cologne ) is a German teacher and researches the history of the Carthusian orders .

Live and act

Beutler grew up in a Catholic home as the youngest of five children. After finishing school at the Kreuzgasse grammar school and completing military service, he began to study teaching at the University of Cologne in the 1945 winter semester . After completing his studies, he worked from 1954 to 1960 as a teacher at the German School in Madrid. Beutler taught until his retirement in 1988 at the Schiller-Gymnasium Köln the subjects philosophy , German and history .

His part-time scientific activity was Carthusian research . In 1994 Beutler discovered the lost Carthusian cycle by Vicente Carducho . He published the pictures, organized their restoration by Estudio ROA (Madrid) for the Prado Museum and took care of their return to the El Paular Monastery in 2011. The work of art made by Carducho for the El Paular Charterhouse in the province of Madrid is the largest Cycle of pictures to the Carthusians. After the abolition of the monastery in 1835, the images were scattered and forgotten.

The illustrated book by Werner Beutler Vicente Carducho The Great Carthusian Cycle in El Paular from the series "Analecta Cartusiana", edited by James Hogg, was published in 1997 at the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Salzburg. In 1998 it was awarded the “Creative Age” prize from the Vontobel Foundation (Zurich).

Works

  • The Bruno cycle in the Basilica of St. Severin in Cologne , Small Art Guide, Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Munich, Regensburg 1993 ISBN 3-7954-5812-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website Experienced History
personal data
SURNAME Beutler, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and Carthusian researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne