Engelbert Mveng: Ugandan Martyrs Altar @ ArtWay

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Check out the most recent post at ArtWay featuring Cameroonian artist/theologian Engelbert Mveng, and two of his large-scale murals.  For more on Mveng and his art, check out my 2012 post here.

Engelbert Mveng: Ugandan Martyrs Altar, Libermann College, Douala, Cameroon.

Engelbert Mveng: Resurrection, Hekima College, Nairobi, Kenya, 1962.

Engelbert Mveng: A Theology of Life Expressed in Art

Eighth Station of the Cross

Engelbert Mveng was born in 1930 near Yaoundé, Cameroon, to Presbyterian parents. He eventually became a Jesuit priest, as well as a historian, poet, artist, philosopher, and theologian. ArtWay.eu, a website that seeks to open up the world of the visual arts to interested Christians, writes that “Father Mveng studied the aesthetics of African arts and published his findings in numerous books and articles. ... His teaching was based on what he called the universal rules of African art. As a historian and theologian he made a great contribution to the study of African culture and history, especially in the realms of cultural and religious anthropology and iconology.”