Howard Mehring, Untitled (Study in Green), c. 1955,
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14⅜ h × 57 w in (37 × 145 cm)
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Howard Mehring, Untitled (Study in Green), c. 1955,
Acrylic on canvas,
14⅜ h × 57 w in (37 × 145 cm)

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Lutheranism, finally, was the religion of the economically backward countries that had been most heavily exploited by Rome, but had the least prospects of either annihilating or dominating Rome. Thus they had to break with Rome completely but were unable to intervene decisively in the great competition to take over its inheritance: Lutheranism held sway in North and East Germany, in Denmark and in Sweden. These were countries where the towns were comparatively under-developed and the nobility strongly predominant. In West Germany, where the towns were stronger and more numerous, Calvinism took the lead.
Where Lutheranism ruled, capitalist development took a long time to work its way out of the feudal chaos. It created no revolutionary bourgeoisie. On the contrary it made the landlord into an owner of property, the knight into a commodity producer. This happened particularly in the arable lands east of the Elbe. Here the Church paid for the ‘pure doctrine of God’ with their goods, the peasants with ever-increased exploitation.
In conformity with these backward conditions Lutheranism was a backward religion. Ever since his betrayal of the peasants Luther had become a crawling servant of the princes. Out of his translation of the Bible, which, with its presentation of simple primitive Christianity, had contributed not a little to the excitation of the masses, he henceforward made a sort of princely catechism that no bootlicker of monarchy would have found objectionable. The princes, Bishops and Junkers were the patrons of the Lutheran Church. It was much more sharply divided in this respect from the democratic church constitution of Calvinism than in all the hair-splitting about the Last Supper. The Dutch Calvinists accused the spiritual life of the Lutheran Church of being a ‘worse than bestial stupidity.’
Thus the German Reformation, after the revolutionary fire had been extinguished with the blood of the peasants, became a campaign of robbery and plunder by the German princes and their ever-growing emancipation from Imperial authority. The Princes’ ‘Reformation’ consisted of naming themselves heads of their national churches, having Lutheranism developed by their court chaplains as a religion of narrow-minded subordination, and particularly of pocketing the rich property of the Church themselves.
These princely ‘Reformations’ were all aimed at the same goal, for all the colourfully chequered variety of their external manifestations. The history of the Hohenzollerns provides a particularly classical example of this. Only the Junkers got a share of the booty, and perhaps the urban patricians who, because of the decay of the towns, had to be satisfied with what they got. The masses, the peasants and the town plebeians gained not the slightest benefit from the robbery of Church property.
Franz Mehring: Absolutism and Revolution in Germany (Part 1)
The German Reformation and its consequences
Howard Mehring | Two and One
acrylic on canvas executed in 1967 57 x 47 5/8 in. (144.8 x 120.9 cm)
Howard Mehring | Brilliant Corners
acrylic on canvas 213.00 x 177.50 cm painted in 1965
Howard Mehring | Spring Sweep
acrylic on canvas 82 ¼ x 72 ¾ in. (208.9 x 184.8 cm.) painted circa 1964

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Nach knapp zwei Monaten hat es in den letzten Stunden an der Mosel mal wieder gewittert und geregnet. Daher ziert das Flusstal an denn kühlen Nordhängen – wie hier an den Moselhöhen der Mehringer Schweiz – ein zauberhafter und fast tropisch anmutender Dampf- und Wolkenschleier 🏝 #mehring #mehringerschweiz #mosel #moseltal #moselhöhen #moselwein #gewitter #regen #wolkenschleier #wasserdampf #tropenleuchten #stimmungsvoll #zauberhaft #wunderbar #einzigartig #picoftheday (hier: Mehringer Schweiz) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChSkXUPL8fU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Comedores de bananas e gente dos caiaques!
Limpem os suportes dos canhões e oleiem as trombetas para o trítono do vosso juízo final. Os monomaníacos são os sacerdotes do cosmos. Há mil 9 centos e vinte anos que o Espírito Santo trabalha como escravo no cárcere das vossas parties honteuses. Já a Europa telegrafa a notícia aterradora: celulose para cérebros já só no mercado negro. Construam armazéns Woolworth em que se aninhe a vossa vergonha, mas não se gabem da secreção da vossa maçã de Adão, roubada à árvore do conhecimento! Personalidade é a curva do Harakiri. A declaração de falência através da compaixão como avental de folhas de parra. Vocês rezam à criança tirada a ferros de Belém, ao grande acoplador de céu e terra. O paraíso para todos pronto a ser usado por meio da nossa cruz gamada sintética. Canção top dos cabarés em forma cristã-bizantina de 1ª qualidade. De Dionysos até ao Pastor Mauke (e cólera patética com as habituais manifestações concomitantes depois de ter comido pequenos frutos de compromisso não maduros!). Ou atenção o Messias vem, um jogo de lotaria com extracção de há mil anos, ou o bezerro de duas cabeças, ou se acreditas que o que tens salta-te da caixa. As chamadas belas artes são depois disto para utilizar só como rolos de papel, e quem se quiser purificar espiritualmente vá em vez de à igreja ao Banho do Almirante ao lado. Pois em inocência sempre se lavaram as mãos mais suspeitas. E o Vosso remorso vem sempre demasiado cedo, aproxima-se coxeando antes da acção. Porque são sagrados - revolucionários - modernos!, se de qualquer modo a cauda ética fica pendurada atrás... Ao homem do raio X é que pertence o futuro. O subconsciente controlável deve ser a exigência de hoje. Por isso, antes do sono duradouro que se aproxima, massagem cuidadosamente os vossos sonhos com Dada.
_ Walter Mehring