ALFONS WALDE (Oberndorf 1891 - 1958 Kitzbühel), Summer Pasture

ALFONS WALDE*
(Oberndorf 1891 - 1958 Kitzbühel)
Summer Pasture
mixed media/paper, 27,7 x 39 cm
verso two estate stamps Prof. A. Walde, Kitzbühel
Provenance: estate of the artist Guttaberger, b. Walde, private collection Austria

ESTIMATE °€ 5.000 - 10.000
START € 4.000

Austrian painter and architect of the 20th century. Important representative of Tyrolean modernism. Early influences of Ferdinand Hodler, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Albin Egger-Lienz. Came from Tyrol, studied at the Technical University in Vienna. Served in World War I from 1914 to 1918, returned to Kitzbühel in 1918. Friendship with labor poet Alfons Petzold. Founded the art publishing house Alfons Walde in 1923, selling postcards and art prints of his most popular paintings there. Built his Berghaus on the Hahnenkamm in 1929 as a social meeting place, oversaw remodeling of Mittersill Castle. Shaped tourism in Tyrol, designed logo of Garms for Kitzbühel in 1933, winter sports advertising posters and the red ski clothing of ski instructors. He dealt with the tradition of his homeland. Created mountain landscapes, snow-covered winter landscapes with rural architecture, mountain farms and depictions of everyday Tyrolean and peasant life in simplified drawing and strong, impasto coloring.

The decision whether he should go to Vienna after returning from the front or to Kitzbühel forever moved Alfons Walde, the great pioneer of modernism in Tyrol, only for a short time. In the summer semester of 1917/18 he enrolled at the Technical University in Vienna. Later, around 1925, he noted: "At that time I had studied technology a lot [...] architecture [...] it is better than studying painting [...] a precise science [...] descriptive geometry ... perspective [...]." But Walde found himself no longer cope in the world of the big city. He had never been a fan of the big city; it always pushed him out into his usual living space. In the pre-war period he only spent the time necessary for his studies in Vienna. Even the post-war period in Vienna, which was rich in motifs for a sensitive artist, had not been able to captivate him. It was only in his familiar Tyrolean surroundings that his pent-up artistic sensitivity broke through.

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