Karl Vinzenz Moser

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Parade for the installation of gas lighting in Bozen (1861), colored wood print by Ignaz Seelos with a picture by Moser

Karl Vinzenz Moser , also Carl Moser the Elder (born October 10, 1818 in Bozen , † January 17, 1882 ibid), was an Austrian painter .

life and work

Karl Moser was a tanner by trade and an autodidact as a painter. Above all, he painted the landscapes of his South Tyrolean homeland with its Dolomites and the area around Bolzano and Merano, rich in castles . His flower pictures in the Biedermeier style showed a precise botanical representation of the alpine flora. His son Carl Moser the Younger was also a painter.

Study trips took the young painter to Venice, Vienna and Prague, among other places, where he got ideas for his work. He was connected to his artist colleagues Franz von Defregger , Heinrich Schöpfer and Ignaz Seelos . With the latter he designed the representation on the woodcut “Masked pageant at the opening of the gas lighting in Bozen” in 1861 .

The extensive artistic work of Karl Vinzenz Moser, which he created alongside his job as a tanner, was shown at an estate exhibition in Bolzano in March 1882 and comprised 114 oil paintings, 112 watercolors and numerous drawings.

Exhibitions

  • 2010 The Moser. A family of artists from Bozen , Bolzano City Museum

plant

The motifs in his pictures all come from his Tyrolean homeland and are of regional importance.

  • Parade to set up gas lighting in Bolzano , Tyrolean State Museum Innsbruck (1861)
  • Landscape with Flowers , Tyrolean State Museum, Innsbruck (1862)
  • Russhaus in Sarntal , Tyrolean State Museum, Innsbruck (1863)
  • Bridge at Rentsch , Tyrolean State Museum, Innsbruck

The Bolzano City Museum also has works by Moser.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Kraus: The Moser - A Bozner family of artists . Supplement to the exhibition in the Bolzano City Museum 2010
  2. ↑ City of Bolzano website
personal data
SURNAME Moser, Karl Vinzenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moser, Carl the Elder; Moser, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1882
Place of death Bolzano