A woman with a basket on her back, a man with a sack slung over his shoulder: carved figurines of vagabonds and beggars were a speciality for Gröden artists from the last third of the 18th century. They usually come in pairs and are depicted in a very realistic manner: haggard, often crippled, with ragged clothes, walking stick and hat. Missing or worn-out shoes are another feature of Gröden figurines.

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.