Ludwig Moroder

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The sculptor Ludwig Moroder at the age of 20

Ludwig Moroder , also called Ludwig Moroder-Lenert, Ludwig Moroder dl Meune or Lodovico Moroder, (* 7. November 1879 in Ortisei , † 10. August 1953 ) was a South Tyrolean carver and sculptor of the famous family of artists Moroder in Val Gardena.

Life

Moroder was a student of Franz Haider , Josef Moroder-Lusenberg and Franz Tavella . Finally he worked in the workshop of the Brothers Moroder in the Lenert house in Ortisei in Val Gardena and as technical director in their studio in Offenburg ( Baden ) (formerly the workshop of Franz Joseph Simmler ). Numerous churches in Baden were furnished with altars by the Moroder brothers and statues in Ludwig Moroder's late Gothic style.

He played a key role in the execution of the group of St. Elisabeth by Rudolf Moroder in the parish church of St. Ulrich.

Beggars from the group of St. Elisabeth of Rudolf Moroder

In 1911 he married Adele Moroder , a distant relative, the daughter of Franz Moroder , the owner and founder of the Brothers Moroder and sister of Rudolf Moroder. Ludwig moved into their workshop at Lenert after several of his wife's brothers either died in World War I or died of illness. The marriage produced five children: Alexander in 1913, Maria in 1914, Carlo in 1917, Pauli in 1919 and Alex in 1923. Two of his sons, Carlo and Pauli, became sculptors themselves. Alex became an advocate of Ladin people .

In 1918, Ludwig Moroder was appointed professor of drawing, modeling and sculpture at the art school in Ortisei in Val Gardena by the Viennese government, where he taught for 27 years. Ludwig Moroder was artistically influenced by Guido Balsamo Stella , the director of the art school and Munich academic, from 1924 to 1927, and his works experienced a softer and more classical style in the following period. Moroder's frequent trips to the art cities of Italy also contributed to this. Ludwig Moroder was co-founder of the exhibition association in St. Ulrich in 1920.

In recognition of his services in sculpture and art education, Ludwig Moroder was on April 24, 1935 by the Italian King Vittorio Emanuele III. awarded the title Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Corona d'Italia .

In 1938 Morodfer exhibited at the fascist art biennial in Bolzano.

After South Tyrol was occupied by German troops in 1943 and he voted to remain in South Tyrol in the 1939 option , he was dismissed from school and only returned to teaching in 1945. In 1949 he retired for reasons of age.

A wooden statue of the artist, depicting a woman with ears of wheat and a fascio ( bundle of rods ), was auctioned off at Christie's in 2005 on the occasion of the auction of the collection of Princess Maria Beatrice di Savoia. The statue was presented to the future King of Italy Umberto II during a visit to Val Gardena in 1936.

Students in his workshop were his son Paul, who took over his workshop, and Franz Mersa (1909–1974), a sculptor in Bressanone.

Works

Statue of the Apostle Paul in the parish church in Ortisei, 1907
Sacred Heart of Jesus in the parish church in Ortisei, 1914

Important works are exhibited in the parish church of Ortisei in Val Gardena : The larger than life St. Ulrich, the statue of the heart of Jesus, St. Paul, the crucifixion on the tabernacle of the main altar, Saint Anthony of Padua. In the adjoining chapel of the fallen, drawn by Prof. Adolf Keim, there is one of his masterpieces, the Pietà . In Ortisei there is the Johann Baptist Purger monument (builder of Grödner Straße ), in the cemetery in 1923 a life-size crucifix on the family grave of Franz Moroder , St. Francis, was created in 1914 in the Antonius Church and can be seen in the Museum Val Gardena - Museum de Gherdeina the Hermit. The neo-Gothic Val Gardena wood carving school was shaped by Josef (1846–1936?) And Ludwig Moroder (1879–1953).

In 1943 a wooden statue of St. Francis de Sales represents, by the journalists of the daily newspaper "Avvenire d'Italia" Pope Pius XII. presented as a gift.

In 1956, Ludwig Moroder's Purger Memorial was modeled through a fundraising campaign by Vigil Pescosta and cast in bronze.

literature

  • Annette Wagner-Wilke: Moroder, Ludwig . 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. 523 f.
  • Moroder, Ludwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 163 .
  • Moroder, family of sculptors and painters . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 425 ff .
  • The Moroder. An old Ladin family from Val Gardena-Dolomites. From the 14th to the 20th century. Origin - History - Biographies - Appendix. Contribution to Tyrolean family research. Self-published, Ortisei in Val Gardena 1980, pp. 260–265.
  • Edgar Moroder: 50 ani do la mort dl gran scultëur prof. Ludwig Moroder dl Mëune (1879–1953). Calënder de Gherdëina. Union di Ladins de Gherdëina, St. Ulrich 2003, pp. 220–223 (Ladin).
  • Sen. Cristl Moroder, Rudolf Moroder Rudolfine, Danila Serafini: Ludwig Moroder 1879–1953 Sculteur y Maester, sculptor and specialist teacher, Scultore e insegnante d'arte. Commemorative writing for the 50th anniversary of death. Publisher: Museum de Gherdëina. Ortisei in Val Gardena 2003.
  • Ed Parish Sanders : Paul . Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., London / New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4027-6885-9 , pp. 30–31, 218 ( books.google.it - reading sample).

See also

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Moroder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Parish Church Ortisei in Val Gardena  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: personal communication from the artist's daughter.
  2. ↑ Catalog VII Sindacale d'arte Bolzano, agosto – settembre XVI (= 1938). Bozen 1938, pp. 38 and 77.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Rampold: Church furnishings from historicism to Art Nouveau. In: Paul Naredi-Rainer, Lukas Madersbacher (Ed.): Art in Tirol. Verlagsanstalt Tyrolia Innsbruck / Verlagsanstalt Athesia Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7022-2776-0 / ISBN 978-88-8266-409-1 , p. 495.
  4. ^ Avvenire d'Italia. March 21, 1943
  5. ↑ L'Cumitè de Gherdeina per unerè GB Purger. Nos Ladins, May 15, 1956 (Ladin).
  6. ↑ B. (Bruno Moroder): 100 ani stradon de Gherdeina. Nos Ladins, November 1st, 1956.
personal data
SURNAME Moroder, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moroder, Lodovico; il Vecchio della Val Gardena; Moroder, Ludwig Angelo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Tyrolean sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Ortisei in Val Gardena
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1953
Place of death Ortisei in Val Gardena