The Last Supper Postcard – by Max Schmalzl, from a Roman Missale - Postcards 4x6 – pack of 3, 10, 100 #51

Our reproduction of this beautiful Victorian Holy Card comes in a 4x6" size with a postcard type back, suitable for framing or mailing or giving away or just using as a holy card. (We also offer this image in an 8.5x11 print.)

Max Schmalzl (1850–1930) was a German Redemptorist lay brother who worked as a painter and illustrator. He lived a monastic lifestyle, devoting himself to the making of Catholic art. This Last Supper is for a Missale published in 1923. Out of modesty, he normally didn’t sign his works but occasionally would put the initials F.M.S. on them, which stood for Frater Max Schmalzl.

He was the fulfillment of an ecclesiastical art movement called the Nazarene school, and he lived its ideal of a humble, pious, and industrious painter-monk. Despite his monasticism, he was very famous during his lifetime. Even to this day, his woodcuts and illustrations are frequently used in Catholic printing, although no one knows they are his as his fame has left the earth.

Comes in a set of 3, 10, or 100 postcards.

Original image was printed in 1923 and is therefore in the public domain in the United States. The labor of our Image Restoration and Text is a "sweat equity copyright" under US law. Image Restoration and Text © www.CatholicArtAndJewelry.com

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