Aus Muschelkalk und Sand vom Strand....

Aus Muschelkalk und Sand vom Strand....

Samuel Jonsson hat sich seine Kirche selbst gebaut, weil eine andere Kirche das Altarbild nicht haben wollte welches er gemalt hatte.
Er hatte eine Idee und hat dafür gelebt.
Aus Muschelschalen hat er sich eine Spur zum Strand gelegt. Seine Sehkraft ließ im Alter stark nach, der Spur der hellen Muschelschalen konnte er folgen und weiterhin Sand holen und Beton anrühren.
Diese Muschelspur ist dort immer noch zu finden, Samuel starb bereits 1969.

"Samúel Jónsson was a farmer who lived in the isolated valley of Selárdalur, he was born in 1885 and died in 1969. Samúel always dreamed of being an artist and started carving and drawing as a young boy. But he had to work very hard to earn his living. Things changed when he got his old age pension around the age of 65. Until then he didn’t have much opportunity to practice his artistic skills. In his old age Samúel began building palaces and sculptures for the money he got as old age pension. He began adding to his living-house. Then he built a museum for all his things, sculptures as well as paintings with carved frames which he made during the winter.Samúel built a
grotesque but charming resemblance to the lion’s fountain in the Alhambra-palace in Granada, Spain, and many sculptures showing seals and other animals as well as figures from Icelandic history like Leif the lucky who found America. When the church in the valley was one hundred years Samúel wanted to give it an altarpiece he had painted; the church-committee decided to reject Samúel’s altarpiece because they thought the old altarpiece was good enough. Then Samúel started building a church on his own around his altarpiece, a church that still stands as a monument commemorating this old man´s ingeniousity and marvellous willpower to make his own dreams come true by means of simple concrete."
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