Ulrich Moroder (born 4 October 1948 in

Urtijëi Urtijëi (; ; ) is a town of 4,637 inhabitants in South Tyrol in northern Italy. It occupies the Val Gardena within the Dolomites, a mountain chain that is part of the Alps. Geography Urtijëi borders the following municipalities: Kastelruth, V ...

) is an Italian artist from

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Biography

Moroder was born in Urtijëi, South Tyrol, in northern Italy. He is a brother of recording artist

Giorgio Moroder Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (, ; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and music producer. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Father of Disco", Moroder is credited with pioneering Euro disco and electronic dance music. His work ...

. from 1968 to 1969, he played for the ice hockey team

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, participating and winning the

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tournament. In 1974, he received training at the University of Applied Arts in

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(O. Oberhuber, A. Frohner). In 1976, he went to

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, France, and in 1978 he attended the

Académie de la Grande Chaumière The Académie de la Grande Chaumière () is an art school in the Montparnasse district of Paris, France. History The school was founded in 1904 by the Catalan painter Claudio Castelucho on the rue de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, near the A ...

in Paris. From 1980 to 1987, he had several study visits to New York and Los Angeles and from 1988 to 1993 in Rome. Mororder worked during his vocational apprenticeship and trained as a barrel painter in Urtijëi. He currently lives and works between Vienna and Urtijëi.

Exhibitions and works

Moroder has had exhibitions in Austria, Italy, Germany, the United States and France. The artist also used to be part of the South Tyrolean Artists Association. Some works of the artist have been sold to the City of Vienna, the Federal Ministry for Education and Cultural Affairs, the

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, and to the

Ferdinandeum The Tyrolean State Museum (), also known as the Ferdinandeum after Ferdinand II of Tyrol, Archduke Ferdinand, is located in Innsbruck, Austria. It was founded in 1823 by the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum Society (''Verein Tiroler Landesmuseum ...

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.Universität Innsbruck
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External links

Website von Ulrich Moroder

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References

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Ulrich Ulrich () is a Germanic given name derived from Old High German ''Uodalrich'', ''Odalric''. It is composed of the elements ''Othala rune, uodal-'' meaning "heritage" and ''-rih'' meaning "king, ruler". Attested from the 8th century as the name of Al ...

Italian contemporary artists Germanophone Italian people Artists from South Tyrol