File:Interior of St. John's Church in Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1913.jpg

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Title: Souvenir year book and parish guide of the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist ... Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Catholic Church - Arkansas - Hot Springs
Publisher: Good Shepherd's Convent,
Contributing Library: Catholic Theological Union
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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found in Ameri-can churches. The papers are full of the praises of thegreat man and we give here only a shorter article translatedfrom the leading Swiss paper, The Vaterland: There is approaching the 100th birthday of Paul Desch-wanden, who was a great artist, an exemplary citizen and asplendid Catholic. Let us shortly recall this jubilee. Paulsparents were John Deschwanden of Stans and Regina Luti-ger of Zug; his birthday was the 10th of January, 1811.Very early the artistic talent of the boy manifested itself.Long before he received any instruction in drawing, he wouldbe seen gliding on the maple floor of their living room draw-ing on the clean, smooth surface the objects, his eye saw andthe pictures of his imagination. The first instruction indrawing he received from Capt. Louis Deschwanden. Therestill is preserved in the atelier in Stans a water color portraitof the Capuchin father, Joseph Kaiser, made by the hand ofour seven years old Paul, which, notwithstanding its artistic 57.
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.5 GO 4-3 o w 58. awkwardness, shows a surprising resemblance. At the ageof ten years Paul visited a priest, an uncle of his, in Meggen.A family in that place desired to have a portrait of theiraged father, but the old man would not sit for any painter.The priest introduced the ten years old Dreschwanden to thefamily; the boy gets a coal from the stove, sharpens it and ina few minutes a splendid likeness of the old man is made.In 1825 and 1826 Deschwanden frequented the gymnasiumin Zug and took instruction in drawing and painting fromCaspar Moos and in piano from the music teacher, Schwerz-mann. In Director Wickarts home in Zug can be seen theexcellent portrait of Curate Wickart, which the 15 years oldDeschwanden painted in 1826. With great success he stud-ied in 1827 under the Artist Schinz in Zurich. Then a stub-born lung trouble kept him home for two years. In 1830 hewent to Munich and made up for lost time with great zealunder the Professors Hess, Zimmermann and Schnorr.Through si

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