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Details of object number: 4700612
Title:Dorfkirche
Part:3/6
Object name:print
Collection:Provincial Council of South Tyrol
Created by:Grasser, Karl (Kortsch, 1923-12-23 - Kortsch, 2022-06-21)
Production date:1984
Description:Black and white view of a village with a church.
In the lower left margin with pencil noted the edition and signed on the right: ‘44/200’, ‘Karl Grasser’.
From the portfolio ‘Rimpf’ with 6 prints mainly in black and white by the artists Herbert Danler, Joseph Brunner, Karl Grasser, Elmar Peintner, Robert Scherer and Luis Stefan Stecher. Edition 44/200.
In the lower left margin with pencil noted the edition and signed on the right: ‘44/200’, ‘Karl Grasser’.
From the portfolio ‘Rimpf’ with 6 prints mainly in black and white by the artists Herbert Danler, Joseph Brunner, Karl Grasser, Elmar Peintner, Robert Scherer and Luis Stefan Stecher. Edition 44/200.
Number/Edition44/200
Hist. crit. notes:Comprised of six original prints, the unique “Mappe Rimpf” portfolio hanging in the Provincial Council building has its raison d'être in a highly unusual and significant recovery operation. Dating back to at least 1220, the ancient Rimpfhöfe farmhouses near Silandro were once the property of the Marienberg Monastery, which originally leased them to a certain Rimpfer family. After sharecroppers and tenants deserted the area in the early 20th century, the centuries-old leases were terminated, and the buildings fell into disrepair. By 1910, the properties had deteriorated to the point where the rural buildings had to be placed under the administration of the Corces/Kortsch sub-municipal administration (separate administrations of civic use assets). By 1980, the Unterrimpfhof farmhouse (housing one of the oldest gothic rooms in the Val Venosta/Vinschgau valley) had become completely dilapidated. A large-scale recovery operation was initiated two years later to save the crumbling farmhouses from collapse. With renovations completed in 1983, the farmhouses finally reopened to the public in 1987. The newly refurbished buildings now served as a retreat to which artists could retire to write and paint. A group of local artists including Herbert Danler, Joseph Brunner, Karl Grasser, Elmar Peintner, Robert Scherer and Luis Stefan Stecher helped to fund the restoration project. They decided to compile a dossier of their original works to raise money and finance the restoration project. It was thus that the dossier was named the “Rimpfmappe” portfolio. Besides donating their works, the artists also performed manual labour on the construction site-hauling stones and restoring the masonry. (Markus Neuwirth, Moving between North and South, in: Art in the Provincial Council of South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen 2024, pp. 167)
Karl Grasser (1923 - 2022) began frequenting the Val Gardena/Gröden Art School before graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Working mainly in bronze and marble, his sculptures mostly found their way into churches or public spaces. His activism for the protection of cultural landscapes led to a 22-year-long membership of the Silandro building commission.
Grasser's contribution to the “Rimpfmappe” portfolio was his woodcut of a group gathering in a village. Another woodcut in the Bolzano Provincial Council building depicts an old woman with a grief-stricken expression sitting on a bench, clutching a rosary. Behind her lies an etched flowerpot beneath Christ on the Cross bleeding from a large nail embedded in His flesh. Grasser's expressiveness and religiosity is manifested in his disproportionately large hands, focussing on the rosary. (Markus Neuwirth, Moving between North and South, in: Art in the Provincial Council of South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen 2024, p. 169, 202-203)
Karl Grasser (1923 - 2022) began frequenting the Val Gardena/Gröden Art School before graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Working mainly in bronze and marble, his sculptures mostly found their way into churches or public spaces. His activism for the protection of cultural landscapes led to a 22-year-long membership of the Silandro building commission.
Grasser's contribution to the “Rimpfmappe” portfolio was his woodcut of a group gathering in a village. Another woodcut in the Bolzano Provincial Council building depicts an old woman with a grief-stricken expression sitting on a bench, clutching a rosary. Behind her lies an etched flowerpot beneath Christ on the Cross bleeding from a large nail embedded in His flesh. Grasser's expressiveness and religiosity is manifested in his disproportionately large hands, focussing on the rosary. (Markus Neuwirth, Moving between North and South, in: Art in the Provincial Council of South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen 2024, p. 169, 202-203)
Material:paper
Technique:gedruckt (Holzschnitt)
Dimensions:
- height: 26.1 cm
width: 20.5 cm
Physical description:Einfarbiger Holzschnitt auf Papier
Keyword:Landscape