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"Great is the power of memory that dwells in places." (from Cicero)

Beloved Augustine (detail), Josef Senoner de Roch, 1910

Augustine the wanderer

Witness to a (too) short artist's life

Josef Senoner de Roch from Wolkenstein (born 1886) created this wooden sculpture of a vagabond before moving to Vienna, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. Senoner had already made wooden toys with his father and later learned to carve wood, amongst other things, at zu Domur workshop. One of the most able sculptors in Gröden, Senoner fell in the First World War. 

Main category:
Art
Subcategory:
Sculpture
Epoch:20th century
Area(s):Selva Gardena
GPS coordinates:@11.73185,46.56129

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