Vigil Pescosta

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Vigil Pescosta , also called Vigil da Banch (born May 21, 1886 in Colfosco ; † November 21, 1981 in Ortisei in Val Gardena ), was a sculptor from Val Gardena .

Life

Born at the Run farm, Pescosta, like two other three brothers, moved to Val Gardena in his youth. While the other became painters and carpenters, Vigil Pescosta turned to sculpture. Pescosta's first teacher was Anton Runggaldier-Passua, he also worked in Rudolf Moroder's workshop until he opened his own workshop.

After the First World War , in which he had to enlist as a soldier, he was commissioned by the school inspector and sculptor Romano Romanelli to work at the Ortisei art school. At the Paris World Exhibition in 1925 , in which the art school took part at the suggestion of director Guido Balsamo Stella , Pescosta was awarded for his work “St. Petrus throwing the net ”was awarded a 1st prize.

The Italian artist Gino Colonesi , who admired this work, invited Pescosta to Ferrara to create a bronze monument with him. Romanelli also made Pescosta go to Vicenza to the stone sculptor Cingolo , where he learned to sculpt in marble and stone for three years. Pescosta was then entrusted with teaching art in Padua and at the ISIA Istituto Superiore di Industrie Artistiche in Monza , again under the direction of Guido Balsamo Stella, who has meanwhile been released from Val Gardena.

In Monza he worked in Arturo Martini's workshop . Pescosta regretted that a work carved in wood by him, depicting a mother with three children who had to witness her husband drowning in the sea, was exhibited and awarded with the name of the much more famous Martini at the Quadriennale in Rome. This work is still on display in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna with the assignment to Martini in Turin. After the art school in Monza was closed, Pescosta was called to Milan, but he refused for family reasons and returned to Val Gardena, where he taught at the art school in Ortisei for two years.

Pescosta was still working as a sculptor at the age of 90.

Pescosta was married to Sefa Vinatzer and had a daughter named Anna, who married the sculptor Siegfried Moroder, Rudolf's son, his teacher.

Pescosta learned to ski from his neighbor Jocl Kastlunger when he was a child. He was commissioned to build the Bamberger Hütte on the Sella . Kastlunger received the equipment in Bamberg and learned skiing there around 1893. Pescosta was admired by the farmers and roommates for how quickly he got around the deep snow in winter to collect the foxes that were caught in traps. Pescosta also worked as a mountain guide and founded the “Alpen Ski Club Ladinia” in Ortisei with Luis Trenker , Ludwig Schmalzl, Hans Jrasek and others in 1908. On February 3, 1908, the first ski race in Val Gardena was organized on Pescosta's initiative at Dantercëpies .

Works

See also

literature

  • Chiocchetti Nadia: Nosta Jent. Persones y personalités dla Ladinia . Union Generela di Ladins dles Dolomites. Fotolito Longo (no year), texts in Ladin Dolomitan with a summary in German and Italian, ISBN 88-901703-4-4 , pp. 112–113 and pp. 239–240.
  • JK ( Josef Kostner ): Bera Vigil Pescosta . Calënder de Gherdëina 1976, Union di Ladins de Gherdëina, St. Ulrich 1975, pp. 44–53 (Ladin).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Demetz: The Val Gardena art school "Cademia". History and development of a culture bearer (PDF; 194 kB) page 35
personal data
SURNAME Pescosta, vigil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vigil da Banch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Colfosco
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1981
Place of death Ortisei in Val Gardena