David Moroder

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David Artur Moroder (born January 28, 1931 in Ortisei in Val Gardena ; died March 10, 1997 there ) was an Italian sculptor and luge rider .

Life

Monument to Salvo D'Acquisto in the Peter-Rosegger-Park in Bolzano (1990)

David Moroder comes from the Val Gardena artisan family Moroder . He had four sons, including Walter Moroder , who also works with modern materials as a sculptor. As a sculptor he worked with wood and bronze. He received artistic impulses from his brother Rudolf Moroder and Augusto Murer . He had private and public clients and took part in various exhibitions in the region.

Moroder was active as a luge athlete. In 1959 he was third in the single-seater at the Luge World Championships in Villard-de-Lans and in 1961 together with Raimondo Prinoth second in the two-seater at the World Championships in Girenbad .

literature

  • The Moroder, an old Ladin family from Val Gardena-Dolomites from the 14th to the 20th century. A contribution to Tyrolean family research. Committee for the printing of the Moroder Studbook, Ortisei in Val Gardena, 1980
  • Istitut Ladin Micurà de Rü (Ed.): David Moroder . St. Martin in Thurn, 2008 ISBN 978-88-8171-075-1
  • Annette Wagner-Wilke: Moroder, David Artur . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 90, de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-023256-1 , p. 521.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudia Guderian: Palm fruit eyes and dolomite chalk , in: Die Welt, August 21, 2004. Annette Wagner-Wilke: Moroder, Walter Maria . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 90, de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-023256-1 , p. 521 f.