Амиш пен меннониттер мұрасы: Хейнц Гаугель салған суреттерінің тарихы

Painting by Heinz Gaugel
Behalt is a cyclorama painted by Heinz Gaugel in the late 20th century. The name comes from the German word behalten: to hold onto or to remember. The work illustrates the heritage of the Amish and Mennonite people from the beginnings of Christianity and is displayed in the Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center in Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio. The Columbus Dispatch said it was the "Sistine Chapel of the Amish and Mennonites". He viewed the mural as a piece of historical rather than religious artwork. by 1990 all scenes were complete and the mural installed in its space. Detail work and retouching took another two years and were finished in 1992. It then moves to the Reformation and narrows its focus to 400 year history of the Radical Reformation and the Anabaptists. It ends with the disappearance of Mennonite missionaries during the Vietnam War. The mural portrays over 1200 people, representing Amish, Mennonite, Hutterites, and other Anabaptist groups.

Biesecker Mast analyzes the mural as "a Christian rhetoric that, as a remembering and a giving, transcends the economy of exchange and possession that surrounds it." Peter J. Dyck He moved to Canada in 1951. He was living in Ontario when he travelled to Columbus, Ohio in 1962, stopped in the town of Berlin for lunch, and overheard someone speaking what sounded much like his mother tongue. He became interested in Amish culture and history. He and his family moved to the Holmes County area in 1972 and in 1978, as a response to growing Amish tourism in the area, he decided to create the cyclorama to explain Anabaptist history to visitors. After the Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center purchased the unfinished painting in 1988, he continued his work on it in their space, often while visitors watched. He completed the painting in 1992, but continued to work in his studio at the center until shortly before his death in 2000.