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

Self-portrait of a female wood carver

Katharina Kasslatter, known as Trina da Gustin, was one of the first  students at the specialist school in Wolkenstein, opened in 1908. This small sculpture out of Swiss pine depicts her sitting on her work stool wearing her traditional costume. Kasslatter started learning wood carving from her mother when she was eight years old. She signed her works in order to set herself apart from anonymous domestic producers.

Former art school in Wolkenstein

In 1908, state teaching activities at Wolkenstein technical school for illustrating and modelling received its own premises in Plan da Tieja school building. While the types of school changed over the course of the years, the Habsburg-era building remained until the art school in Wolkenstein was closed. It was not until 2013 that it had to give way to today's middle school building.

Gustin

The detached 15th-century farmhouse at the start of Wolkenstein enjoys listed building status and is not inhabited today. One part of the living quarters  was found in the stonewalled eastern section of the building. The parlour ('Stube') and rooms were in the wooden boarded section. This is where the famous wood carver Katharina Kasslatter (anda Trina da Gustin), one of the first students at the art school in Wolkenstein to sign her work, lived until her death in 1974.