Josef Moroder-Lusenberg
Josef Moroder-Lusenberg | |
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 Josef Moroder Lusenberg and wife Annamaria Sanoner | |
| Born | Josef Moroder 28 May 1846 Urtijëi |
| Died | 16 February 1939 (aged 92) Urtijëi |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Education | Academy of Fine Arts Munich |
| Known for | painting, sculpture |
| Movement | Munich School |
Josef Theodor Moroder, also known as the Lusenberger, (28 May 1846 in
Biography
Josef, the fourth of eight children, lost his father when he was eight years old. He was apprenticed in a woodcarving studio under Franz Prinoth, an academic sculptor educated in the
His first wife, Annamaria Sanoner died after she gave birth to their fourth child in 1874. He married Felizitas Unterplatzer who gave birth to eleven other children. She also took care of his farm and was active as an antiquarian. Thirty years old, with the support of Felizitas, he visited the
In Munich Josef Moroder was influenced by the genre and historical painting of Defregger and the realistic-idealistic painting movement of
The populist-romantic novelist Maria Veronika Rubatscher was well acquainted with the artist and wrote his biography in 1930, which became a popular novel.
One of his pupils was Ludwig Moroder-Lenert. Most of Josef's children, Johann Baptist, Friedrich (Rico), Alfons, Josef, Otto, Hermann, became valid sculptors. His son Alfons (1882–1960) settled in Milwaukee where he set up a business to sell altars for churches and statues of saints partially produced by him or imported from his native village, Urtijëi.
Exhibitions
- A major exhibition was held in Innsbruck in 1973.
- Josef Moroder's watercolours were shown in Bolzano Italy in 1985.
- In 2009 two exhibitions in Urtijëi and Bolzano with respectively 120 and 100 works.
- The Museum of Val Gardena in Urtijëi exhibits more than 30 of his oil paintings and watercolours.[1]
Gallery
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Virgin Mary in the parish church of Urtijëi by Josef Moroder-Lusenberg. -
Adoration of the Magi in the parish church of Urtijëi by Josef Moroder-Lusenberg. -
Maria Immaculata, painting after Murillo, in the S. Antony church, by Josef Moroder-Lusenberg, 1876. -
Archangel Michael in the S. Antony church by Josef Moroder-Lusenberg, 1876. -
Lumberjack carved in Swiss pine by Josef Moroder-Lusenberg. -
Monument to the artist by his son Johann Baptist Moroder, 1896. -
Family grave of the artist in Urtijëi by the son Johann Baptist 1928.
References
Bibliography (in German)
- Maria Veronika Rubatscher. Der Lusenberger. Der Roman eines Künstlerlebens. München: Verlag Josef Kösel & Friedrich Pustet, 1930 (Reprint Athesia Bozen, 1980 ISBN 88-7014-123-3).
- Komitee für die Drucklegung des Moroder-Stammbuches. Die Moroder, ein altladinisches Geschlecht aus Gröden-Dolomiten. Vom 14. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Ursprung - Geschichte - Biographien - Anhang. Beitrag zur tirolischen Familienforschung - Edited by the Moroder Book committee, Urtijëi 1980. Pages 188-204. (Book mainly in German, with some minor parts in English, Italian, Spanish and Ladin). British Library LF.31.a.1348.
- Sybille-Karin Moser. Tiroler Bilder und Ihre Darstellung. Malerei von 1830 bis 1900. S. 519. Aus: Kunst in Tirol. Herausgeber: Paul Naredi-Rainer, Lukas Madersbacher.Verlagsanstalt Tyrolia Innsbruck und Verlagsanstalt Athesia Bozen 2007. ISBN 978-88-8266-409-1.
External links
- Exhibitions on Josef Moroder 2009
- Other painting and images
- Drawings from Josef Moroder's sketchbooks
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