Paxmal 
bei Walenstadtberg

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Above Walenstadtberg at 1290 
meters about sea level we find a place
called Schrina-Hochrugg.
Surrounded of the impressing Chur-
firsten mountains we have a beautiful
view on the lake of Walen and the alps.

Here, we find a good example, how
human and art can cooperate, to build
a place of the strength and freedom
by human hands. 

Paxmal of Walenstadtberg / Picture 1

 

Paxmal 
      of Walenstadtberg / Picture 2     

 

In the years 1913/1914, it was probably not jet
consciously to the young artist Karl Bickel, that
he would feel destined to etablish a place of
freedom as his life`s work here.

In 25 years, the lonely artist created 
under huge material and social missings,
and with large self-discipline, a great
monument, the Paxmal.

The left wall contents the earthconnected life:
A pair of people in its beeing, love and
generation.
The right wall is dedicated to the mental life:
the awakenings, the struggles, the lookings
and the coming ups.

 

Those spiritual meanings, who comes
to the printout here, refine the quality
of the radiant emittance and the whole
system raises to one true place of
strength with 18`5000 Bovis units.

This place is not a cult place, but
a place of the meditation over us, our
ways of life and the society.

Paxmal 
      of Walenstadtberg / Picture 3

 

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 (St. Gallen)

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