(Oberndorf 1891–1958 Kitzbühel)
‘Einsamer Berghof’ (Isolated mountain house), 1935, signed A. Walde, oil on cardboard, 26.5 x 41.5 cm, framed, (orig. Walde frame)

Label on the reverse:
Alfons Walde Kitzbühel, Tirol, Austria, Titel des Bildes (title of the painting): Einsamer Berghof 1935 (in the artist’s handwriting)

Registered:
Alfons Walde Archive under the no. D-LA-475

Compare:
Gert Ammann, Alfons Walde: 1891–1958, 4th edition, Verlagsanstalt Tyrolia, 2001, p. 115

Provenance:
Private Collection, Vienna

Gustinus Ambrosi to Alfons Walde, from Vienna, 5.12.1926
... My dear Walde, I was also here in the Künstlerhaus. I enjoyed your paintings very much. You have really done me an honour, since I recommended you to the rotten ungrateful Viennese artists’ rabble. I entrusted you to such and such, and then I sent telegrams from Innsbruck and Kitzbühel, and now I am happy to see that your pictures beat the lot of them. The Alpine pasture in the snow is very well drawn, only the snow is a bit too dirty; it looks as if it has a layer of factory soot on top of it. The other large painting with snow and sun is fantastic, but it belongs in a black, broader frame, not a gold or silver one. My dear chap, you’ve captured very well the light and shadows of the mountains, peaks, and hills. The ‘anatomy’, the ‘perspective’ of the aether, the azure blue, the air, the atmosphere - it’s all very good indeed - only in the shade of the trees are you too one-sided, too monotonous, believe me, dear fellow, shade doesn’t have to be treated in such a poster-like fashion. Shade also has light and dark, perspective and ‘anatomy’ - go into this more deeply. You’re on the right course. You’re really great, my friend. It’s quite a miracle, old chap that the snow that you paint, with the sweat with which you paint, doesn’t melt! ...
From the aforementioned literature