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Gerrit van Honthorst’s Adoration of the Shepherds has hung in the Albl family’s Bavarian workshop for decades.
“What I personally like about the painting is that the light is coming from the center, from Jesus,” Johannes Albl told the Register about the artwork’s subject, which has inspired a whole lineage of Albls.
For the Albls and generations of other woodcarvers in the village of Oberammergau, the Nativity has never merely been a seasonal decoration. It has been a theological statement rendered in wood: Christ as the source of light, order and meaning, quietly drawing the world toward himself.
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“What I personally like about the painting is that the light is coming from the center, from Jesus,” Johannes Albl told the Register about the artwork’s subject, which has inspired a whole lineage of Albls.
For the Albls and generations of other woodcarvers in the village of Oberammergau, the Nativity has never merely been a seasonal decoration. It has been a theological statement rendered in wood: Christ as the source of light, order and meaning, quietly drawing the world toward himself.
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Carving Christmas: The Story Behind the South Carolina Life-Size Nativity
Learn about the painting that inspired a family’s sacred art.
