HUMAN FIGURES hroughout his lifetime, Alfons Walde took inspiration from the natural beauty of his native Tyrol, but just as much so fromthe local people and culture. Many inhabitants were farmers, and they were the subject of many of his paintings. Thesepaintings...
WINTER THEMES Undoubtedly, Walde’s most widely recognized work consists of his winter landscapes. Many of them show evidence of the full power of his expressive side, as it emerged in the aftermath of WWI, while they also reveal a component of “heaviness” that...
AUTUMN THEMES Alfons Walde’s autumnal motifs are primarily concerned with the autochthonous landscape and the rural architecture embedded in it. The colors of the buildings seem to be reflected in the play of colors of the surrounding nature. A strong contrast...
SOMMERMOTIVE Alfons Walde war ein Mensch, der sehr stark durch sein unmittelbares Umfeld geprägt war, einerseits der Naturlandschaft seiner Heimat, andererseits dem Mileu-und Menschenschlag, dem er selbst entsprungen ist. Beide Sujets finden sich in seiner Arbeit...
EARLY WORK Already in his early years, between 1903 and 1910, as a student in secondary school in Innsbruck, Austria, Alfons Walde (1891-1958) was proving his extraordinary talent as a painter (e.g, Still Life, 1906). Several Walde watercolors, first shown in the...
