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INFORMATIONS ABOUT THE SCHMALZL FAMILY
The family Schmalzl has deep artistic roots.
Gunnars great-grandfather was the popular artist Josef Moroder Lusenberg.
Josef Moroder Lusenberg (* 1846 in Ortisei Val Gardena; † 1939) .
The artist Josef Moroder Lusenberg is the most important ladin painter. The last large exhibition of his works was in Innsbruck (A) in 1973. An exhibition of his water colors was in Bolzano (I) in 1985. From his large number of drawings, paintings and woodcarvings, the water colours are probably the least known of all. In these you can see his characteristic and independence, and the unusual artistic ability.
Josef was the fourth of eight children. He lost his father when he was eight years old. After autodidactic drawing and carving attempts, he pulled to Munich. He was thirty, and at that time he was married for the second time. His first wife, Anna Maria Sanoner, died after the birth of the fourth child. The second wife was Felizita Unterplatzer, who bore him further eleven children.
At the academy of arts in Munich his teachers were Knabl, Löffz and Dietz (1876-1880). From 1880-84 he was a pupil of Franz von Defregger. Here, Josef Moroder came also in contact with the local art currents, with the history and genre painting of Franz von Defregger, and with the idealism and realism of the two years older William Leibl. Trough the friendship with Defregger, the art travels he made with him in the Trentino and the order to copy his pictures, Josef Moroder got in his own creations sometimes into considerable dependence of the extraordinarily admired master.
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House Lusenberg (Jumbierch), with garden and in the background Bulla and Bullacia, 1918
Oil on canvas. |
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Josef may have acquired the good nature observation already as a child in the rural environment and working in the fields and forest at the birth house of Scurcià in Ortisei. Countless sketches and drawings show his children and grandchildren. In the demanding water colour technique he portrayed a number of people, who were noticeable by their marked characteristics. They are realistic and the colours harmony with the background. This fine chromatic harmony is not only present in the excellent portraits, but also in the interiors, the old living rooms, kitchens and cabins and in the fresh landscape water colours of different seasons. |
In our family
Schmalzl we have also a young personality. Carolina Kostner ist Gunnars cousin.
Carolina Kostner born februray
8, 1987 in Bolzano
is an Italian figure skater.
Her mother, Patrizia, was a nationally ranked figure
skater in the 1970s and her father, Erwin, played ice hockey for the Italian national
team at the World Championship and Olympic games.
Carolina
Kostner made her senior European debut in the 2002-2003 season, finishing 4th
at the European championships. On 19 march 2005 she wins the bronze medal at
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She won the Italian national title and went on to win her first European title at the 2007 European Figure Skating
Championships in Warschau. She won her second European title at the 2008 European Figure Skating Championships in Zagreb after winning the short program
and placing second in the free skate. At the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships, Kostner won the short
programm and placed third in the free skate, winning the silver medal overall. In January 2009 she won the silver medal at
the 2009 European Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki.
She is still training with Michael Huth in Oberstdorf (Germany)
and splits her time between Obertsdorf and Turin.
Kostner was chosen to be flag bearer for the host
Italian team during the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics. At the
Olympics, she placed 9th.
Kostner is famous for her fast speed over the ice. She
lands triple-triple combinations, most consistently the triple flip – triple
toe lop, in competition.
www.carolina-kostner.it |
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