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Title:Blumenmarkt

Object name:tableau

Collection:Provincial Council of South Tyrol

In accordance with the resolution of the Council of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol of 19 December 1979, No. 12, Art. 19 (Inventories), 106 works of art were transferred from the ownership of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano-South Tyrol to the ownership of the South Tyrolean Provincial Council in autumn 2005 as part of the movable property. The three frescoes by Karl Plattner (‘South Tyrol’), Siegfried Pörnbacher (‘The Harvest’) and Peter Fellin (‘Bridge between North and South’), which are attached to the provincial council building and are therefore immovable, have remained the property of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano-Alto Adige as ‘art in architecture’.

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Created by:Maurer Arnold, Lore (Innsbruck, 1923 - Innsbruck, 1960-10-09)

Production period:Mitte 20. Jahrhundert

Description:Flower stall with vendor, a woman buying flowers, a boy holding a few flowers and a black dog. In the background, another figure can be seen dimly from behind under a parasol.

Hist. crit. notes:Lore Arnold Maurer (1923 - 1960) was born in Innsbruck. With the encouragement of her (painter) father, she started at an early age. Her studies at the Technical University in Munich in 1942 were followed by a course at the Master School for Art Education in Vienna where, (wartime interruptions notwithstanding), she obtained her teacher's training certificate in 1947, while also passing her French and German examinations. From 1948 to 1950, she served as a probationary teacher before taking up a fulltime teaching post at the Innsbruck High School for Girls, where she remained from 1950 to 1953. After marrying Fritz Maurer, a South Tyrolean, they moved to Bolzano, where, in 1954, she joined the South Tyrolean Artists' Association. As a freelance artist, Lore also gave private drawing and painting lessons. While working under the Reichsarbeitsdienst Reich Labour Service in Vienna during the war years, her œuvre had already contained elements of social critique, belying a skillful renitence in opposing the Nazi regime then in power. Even after the end of the war her work remained a vehicle for her social concerns including the plight of displaced persons, and she expressed fears of the atomic bomb. Tending at times towards a seemingly deliberate, childlike naivety, this was in sharp contrast with her sometimes shocking motifs. Her paintings, such as “Ein Blumenverkäufer mit Frau, Kind und Hund” (A Flower Seller with his Wife, Child, and Dog) displayed at the Bolzano Provincial Council building, are locally inspired. After falling seriously ill in 1958, her life was cut short in 1960, and she passed away at the age of only 37. (Markus Neuwirth, Moving between North and South, in: Art in the Provincial Council of South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen 2024, pp. 165, 188-189)

Material:Tempera
paper

Technique:gemalt

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Physical description:Tempera auf Papier

Institution:Art collections of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen – South Tyrol

Street:Department for German Culture, Andreas-Hofer-Straße | via Andreas Hofer, 1

Place:39100 Bolzano/Bozen

Country:Italy

E-mail:kultur@provinz.bz.it

Telephone:+39 0471 413360

Web:http://www.provinz.bz.it/kunst-kultur/kultur

Keyword:Figurative

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