Experimenting with forms and colours to combine tension and order in the same work of art: with the acrylic painting 'Absolute Schrift', Mili Schmalzl taught young artists at the art school in Ortisei. Schmalzl, a woman from the woodcarving valley, was born in 1912 and succeeded in getting into Italy's and Germany's art academies to train as a painter. 

This tempera painting of the Sella massif (in Ladin Sas dla Luesa, Mëisules) bathed by the evening light comes from Peter Demetz da Fëur (1913-1977), who taught in the art schools in Wolkenstein and St. Ulrich after the Second World War. The motif of the Dolomites unspoilt by human hand was often employed by this keen hiker.  

This painting, completed in 1925 by the painter Josef Moroder Lusenberg, is meant to depict Ortisei, the village where he grew up in the 1860s as seen from his house. This retrospective look is connected with the profound developments occurring in the valley in the wake of the booming art and tourist trade up until the First World War, causing farming to decline in importance. 

This cultural asset is part of the tour "The turn-of-the-century economic boom in Ortisei: villas and workshops".

This oil painting, created by Josef Moroder Lusenberg in 1912, shows an organ grinder entertaining a group of barefoot children in front of a farmhouse in Val Gardena. The children seem fascinated by the monkey sitting on his street organ, while two girls watch a little way off doing embroidery with their mother - no doubt intended as an observation of social diversification in Ortisei at the turn of the century. 

This watercolour with peonies was created by Jakob Sotriffer between 1822-24 during his time as a student at the Vienna Academy, where a state-awarded grant allowed him to train as a drawing teacher and sculptor. Sotriffer came from Plajes farm in Ortisei and was taken on as the first teacher at the new drawing school in 1825. 

The only Lenten cloth in South Tyrol used to cover the altar during Lent. The story of salvation is told in 24 pictures: from Christ's suffering to the Ascension and Whitsun. The spaces are ordered into four rows; the scenes teem with figures. The cloth painted with tempera on primed canvas was in use in St. Jakob's chapel until 1950, painter unknown. 

This cultural asset is part of the tour "St. Jacob and its over-500-year-old farms".

This bed chamber was built onto the now-demolished Bierjun farmhouse in Überwasser in 1456 and only revealed its secret beneath ultraviolet light: drawings in red chalk of scenes ranging from the passion of Christ to the mounting of the bell in Pufels church tower, and a bear hunt. These red chalk drawings are a rare example of religious piety in a private rural context before 1500. One farm owner was provost of St. Leonhard's chapel in Pufels in the 17th century.