!!!Fastentücher

Lenten Veils (Fastentuecher, also called Hungertuecher ("hunger 
veils")), curtains that have been used (since the 10%%sup th/%  
century) to veil altars during Lent, interpreted as a symbol of the 
separation of the repentant sinner from the Church. Painted Lenten 
veils were particularly frequent in the Alpine regions of Austria, 
while embroideries were preferred in Germany. One of the most valuable 
and artistic Lenten veils in Austria is the one at Gurk painted by 
Konrad von Friesach in 1458, which is also the largest and oldest of 
the nine completely preserved Lenten veils in Carinthia. The Lenten 
veil now exhibited in the Austrian Folklore Museum in Vienna (around 
1640) was probably also made in Carinthia. The production of artistic 
Lenten veils ended with the Age of Enlightenment.

!Literature
A. Huber (ed.), 400 Jahre Millstaetter Fastentuch 
(proceedings), 1993; O. Stary and W. van der Kallen, Das Fastentuch im 
Dom zu Gurk, 1994.


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