Josef Theodor (The Lusenberger) Moroder - Artist Info

About Josef Theodor (The Lusenberger) Moroder

Name variants

J Moroder, Josef Theodor Moroder-Lusenberg
  • Biography

    Josef Theodor Moroder, named the Lusenberger (28 May 1846 in Urtijëi – 16 February 1939 in Urtijëi) was a painter and sculptor, the most prominent artist of the Moroder family from the Grödenthal in South Tyrol now the Val Gardena in Italy.

    Josef, the fourth of eight children, lost his father when he was eight years old. He was apprenticed in a woodcarving studio under Franz Prinoth, an academic sculptor educated in the Munich Academy, and in his twenties Josef started his own studio. Examples of his early activity as a sculptor are the statues of the Maria Addolorata and of the Virgin Mary in the Parish Church of Urtijëi.

    His first wife, Annamaria Sanoner, died after she gave birth to their fourth child in 1874. He married ...

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