Alfons Walde *

(Oberndorf 1891–1958 Kitzbühel)
“Winter-Sonntag in Tirol” (in the background the Wilder Kaiser), signed A. Walde, on the reverse on the original artist’s label titled Winter-Sonntag in Tirol as well as signed and dated A. Walde 1955, oil on cardboard, 25 x 34 cm, original Walde frame
Registered:
Archive Alfons Walde

Provenance:
Private Collection, Lower Austria

In the late Twenties and Thirties, the paintings “Holzknechte” (1926/27), “Frühling in Tirol” (1928), “Einsame Hausung” (circa 1930), “Almen und Firn” (1933), and “Bergweiler (Weiler in Tirol)” (1935) represented the impasto-painted conception of village and alpine ambience. The titles of these works are now directly associated with the term ‘Tyrol’. Soft hilltops and hollows stand in contrast to rocky, rugged mountain backdrops... It is only in the later village views that the scenery is assembled like a stage set, with no reference to reality, in which people perform the role of extras. And yet these subjects reflect the elemental power of new motifs...
Strong demand led to repetition. The motifs were created with slight variations, but always showed his mastery of painting technique and colour...
Gert Ammann from: Der populäre Walde, exh. cat. Alfons Walde, Leopold Museum, 2006