Friedrich Moroder

Friedrich Moroder and Maria Moroder Hilpold around 1896 in the Val Gardena costume. In the background the village of Ortisei.

This wooden relief, signed F. Moroder , was created in 1917 on the Galician war front.

Friedrich Moroder , also Rico (born March 21, 1880 in Ortisei in Val Gardena ; † January 24, 1937 there ), was a South Tyrolean sculptor .

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  Gravestone of the Moroder family

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  Relief after Dürer (1918)

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  Relic of the Virgin Mary in the parish church of Ortisei in Val Gardena

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  Relic of St. Anthony of Padua in the parish church of Ortisei in Val Gardena

He was born as the son of the Ladin painter Josef Theodor Moroder, called the Lusenberger and Felizita Unterplatzer in Ortisei in Val Gardena. He learned the trade in his father's workshop. Two sons, Viktor and Bruno, were also trained as sculptors in his workshop in Ortisei. During the First World War , like many Tyrolean Standschützen , he was sent to Galicia on the Russian front.

Friedrich's sculptor's workshop was mainly known for sacred art for decorating churches. Moroder married Genoveva Runggaldier (-Paßberg) on ​​October 11, 1904. Both had five children, three sons and two daughters. His elder, of the same name, was ordained a priest in 1930 .

Moroder was also musically gifted and played in the local band.

See also

• Sculpture in Val Gardena

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.
• Obituary in the Dolomites

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Rico Moroder  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files