(Oberndorf 1891–1958 Kitzbühel)
“Bergbauern bei Kitzbühel” [Mountain Farmers near Kitzbühel], Tyrol, 1936, signed A. Walde, label on the reverse Alfons Walde, Kitzbühel, Tirol, Austria, in the artist’s handwriting: “Bergbauern” bei Kitzbühel Tirol 1936, oil on cardboard, 32.5 x 51.5 cm, framed, in original artist´s frame, (K)

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Dr Gert Amman.
It will be registered at Walde-Archive.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Germany

...19th-century representations of landscapes in the High Alps were shaped above all by Lepold Scheiring’s imposing depictions. Max von Esterle, just like Otto Rasim, managed to recreate the vibrant atmosphere of snow thanks to pointillist brushwork, whilst Gustav Bechler and Max Angerer were able to capture the mood that characterised their familiar milieus. Andreas Einberger instilled his winter images with a local ambience by depicting specific regional events. Unlike them, Walde always portrays the marked physiognomy of nature that finds its matching expression in both form and atmosphere. The mountain landscapes of Egger-Lienz, Einberger, Nikodem, Prachensky and the Schwaz artists are shorn of all human decorative figures. In contrast to the above, Walde integrated man into these landscapes and made him part of the painting, managing to reveal with him the vastness and untouched beauty of nature. Likewise, his personal experience of the mountainous landscape around Kitzbühel – in later years also of South Tyrol – also becomes a determining characteristic of this oeuvre.
Gert Ammann, Alfons Walde, 4th edition, Tyrolia Verlag, 2001