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

Sella group in its alpenglow

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.

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.