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

View of St. Ulrich in 1860

This painting, completed in 1925 by the painter Josef Moroder Lusenberg, is meant to depict St. Ulrich, 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.

The organ grinder

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 Gröden. 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 St. Ulrich at the turn of the century.