Johann Baptist Walpoth (

Urtijëi Urtijëi (; german: St. Ulrich in Gröden ; it, Ortisei ) is a town of 4,637 inhabitants in South Tyrol in northern Italy. It occupies the Val Gardena within the Dolomites, a mountain chain that is part of the Alps. Geography Urtijëi borders th ...

, 25 January 1911 - Urtijëi, 2 September 1934) was an Austrian sculptor. Bergkreuz_am_Sëurasas_von_Peristi-Walpoth

Biography

Johann Baptist Walpoth, also called Batista da Lësc, was born in the Junerëi farm, son of Luis Walpoth sculptor and Katherina Bernardi da Lësc, a

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specialized in making costumes typical of

Val Gardena Val Gardena (; german: Gröden ; lld, Gherdëina ) is a valley in Northern Italy, in the Dolomites of South Tyrol. It is best known as a tourist skiing, rock climbing, and woodcarving area. Geography The valley's main river is the Derjon, a ...

. Walpoth was born into a family of artists such as his sister Cristina, a polychromatic-gilder. Walpoth was initiated into wood carving in the workshop of Vinzenz Moroder-Scurcià and attended the Urtijëi School of Art, directed at the time by

Guido Balsamo Stella Guido Maria Balsamo Stella (Turin, 1 January 1882 - Asolo, 1 January 1941) was an Italian painter and engraver. Biography Born in Turin of parents Luigi Balsamo and Celestina Sommariva, Balsamo Stella soon lost his father and acquired the double ...

, where he had also attended the modeling course held by Ludwig Moroder-Lenert. In 1934 he worked in Luis Insam-Tavella's workshop. He died following a hunting accident in the Resciesa woods in

.Pepi Moroder: ''Trëi scultëures de Gherdëina, morc te si plu biei ani, Vinzenz Peristi, J. Batista Walpoth, Prof. Anton Anderlan.'' Calënder de Gherdëina 1955. Union di Ladins de Gherdëina. St. Ulrich in Gröden 1955. p. 42 (ladin)

Works

* The crucifix of Mount Sëura Sas, carved in wood on the mountain itself with Vincenzo Peristi, currently exhibited in the Museum of Val Gardena in Urtijëi. * A statue of a mountain guide and a crucifix purchased by the Duchess of

Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ...

Lydia of Arenberg Lydia ( Lydian: ‎𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkey, Turkis ...

, wife of Filiberto of Savoia.

Galleria di opere

Mandl cun armonica Batista Walpoth Berstott Lenert a Urtijëi.jpg, Plaster sketch of an accordion player attributed to Walpoth Mandl cun armonica detail Batista Walpoth Berstott Lenert a Urtijëi.jpg, Detail of the accordion player. Cë de gips Berstott Lenert a Urtijëi.jpg, Plaster bust of Christ in crown of thorns signed J.W. 1932.

References

Sister projects

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