Albino Pitscheider

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The beheading of John the Baptist by Albin Pitscheider in the parish church of St. Ulrich

Albino Pitscheider (also Albin , Alwin or simply Bera Albino , born November 30, 1877 in Ortisei in Val Gardena ; † February 17, 1962 in Selva di Val Gardena ) was a sculptor from Val Gardena .

Life

The artist was an apprentice to Franz Santifaller in Sankt Ulrich for 3 years and a journeyman with Johann Baptist Moroder for 4 years . On his wanderings he went to Leopold Hofer in St. Pölten as well as to Hermann Josef Stark in Nuremberg. In the years 1902–1903 he worked in the workshops of the Brothers Moroder in Offenburg / Baden. In 1910 he became a contractual teacher at the technical school for drawing and modeling in Selva, where he taught until 1949.

At the beginning of the First World War he was assigned to the prosthesis department in Vienna. Subsequently, he applied for admission to the art group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter , as he was "suitable for making war articles in wood". On July 20, 1917, he was invited to a meeting at the war press headquarters, but his application for admission remained pending. Nevertheless, he made several statuettes with war motifs, which are now kept in the Army History Museum in Vienna .

Albino Pitscheider was with Robert Moroder, Alex Moroder , Luis Piazza , Hermann Moroder, Gilo Prugger and Heinrich Moroder sen. Co-founder of the Val Gardena Museum in Ortisei in 1958 .

The Galaria Bera Albino exhibition room in the “Oswald von Wolkenstein” cultural center in Selva was dedicated to the artist.

Works (excerpt)

  • Statuette farmer , 1900, wood
  • Statuette Russian prisoner of war , 1917, linden wood, 12.5 × 10 × 45 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
  • Statuette of a Serb prisoner of war , 1917, glued linden wood, 13 × 9.5 × 44 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
  • Statuette of an Albanian prisoner of war , 1917, linden wood, 13 × 9.5 × 42.5 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
  • Statuette Russian prisoner of war , 1917, linden wood, 12.5 × 10 × 43.5 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna
  • Statuette A seated figure of a young farmer knocking out his harvest sickle , 1921, wood, 17.5 × 21 × 12.5 cm
  • L'Aquila, Chiesa di Cristo Re (Madonna with Christ), Palazzo Montecitorio , Rome
  • The artist's daughters Rosa, Paula and Annele bequeathed 120 wooden sculptures of their father to the Museum Val Gardena.

Exhibitions

A commemorative exhibition on the 25th anniversary of his death took place in 1987 in the Val Gardena Museum.

See also

Sculptor in Val Gardena

literature

  • Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Army History Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 135 f.
  • Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig 1933, volume 27, p. 116.
  • Rudolf Moroder-Rudolfine: Albino Pitscheider (1877–1962) scultëur y maester , Museum Gröden, Ortisei 1987. (German, Italian, Ladin)
  • Robert Moroder: Pruf. Albino Pitscheider 1877–1962. N lecort di 50 ani dalla mortdl artist. Calënder de Gherdëina. Union di Ladins de Gherdëina Ortisei in Val Gardena 2011. Born in 2012. pp. 195–197 ( Ladin ).

Web links

Commons : Albino Pitscheider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 135 f.
  2. ↑ on boznerkunstauktionen.com ( Memento from March 7, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on February 8, 2013
  3. ↑ on artnet.com , accessed February 8, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Pitscheider, albino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pitscheider, Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Italian sculptor (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Ortisei in Val Gardena
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1962
Place of death Selva in Val Gardena