Franz Tavella

Franz Tavella (La Val, 10 October 1844 – Brixen, 12 December 1931) was a Ladin master wood sculptor active in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy.

At a later time he moved to Val Gardena, where the founder of the school of art of Urtijëi in Val Gardena, Ferdinand Demetz, noticed his artistic talent and decided to take him as a pupil teaching him the art wood carving.

[2] In 1895 in Innsbruck he was given an award for his statue representing Saint Anne and the holy virgin Mary, which is now kept in the church of Pieve di Livinallongo.

In 1897 he was given an award in Bolzano and in 1900 in Paris at the world exposition for his Pietà, nowadays kept in the chapel of the public cemetery of Brixen.

[3] he sculpted a wooden statue of Saint Magdalen for the Ca'de Bezzi Family.