Johann Baptist Moroder

He mainly focused on sculptures of bigger sizes representing Christian sacred figures; nowadays his works are mainly spread in the Italian region of Alto Adige.

At the age of 14 he began learning wood sculpting in his father's workshop in Jumbierch.

From 1886 to 1888 he worked in Franz Tavella's workshop in Ortisei alongside his cousin, Rudolf Moroder-Lenert, and Ludwig Moroder.

In 1887 he was taken as a pupil by professor Franz Haider: the director of the school of art of Ortisei.

[2] In 1895 he married Katharina Bernardi de Ianesc who bore 11 of his children.

A monument to his father, the painter Josef Moroder-Lusenberg , in the garden of Villa Sonnenburg in Ortisei.