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Alois Franz Trenker was born on 4 October 1892 in [[Urtijëi]], [[County of Tyrol|Tyrol]] ({{lang-de|link=no|St. Ulrich in Gröden}}, {{lang-it|Ortisei}}) in the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian Empire]] (in present-day northern Italy).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Vierhaus|first=Rudolf|url=https://books.google.com/books?id&#61;-MAlCv4xROAC&pg&#61;PA94|title=Thies – Zymalkowski|date=3 May 2011-05-03|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-096381-6|language=de}}</ref> His father Jacob Trenker was a painter from North Tyrol, and his mother Karolina (''née'' Demetz) was from Urtijëi in [[Val Gardena]]. He grew up speaking two languages: German, the language of his father, and [[Ladin language|Ladin]], the language of his mother. He attended the local primary school from 1898 to 1901, and then attended the Josefinum in [[Bolzano]] in 1902 and 1903. From 1903 to 1905, he attended the arts and crafts school in Bolzano, where he developed his skills as a woodcarver.