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Alfons Walde* (Oberndorf 1891 – 1958 Kitzbühel) Sidelight, c. 1919 pastel on paper and cardboard, 24.6 x 20.8 cm inscribed on the reverse: Alfons Walde, Kitzbühel, Tyrol, No. 47, Guta E. Berger, née Walde featured in the Walde Catalogue raisonné, 2025, p. 445, WVN. D-KÖ-190 ESTIMATE €8,000 – €16,000 STARTING PRICE €8,000 Alfons Walde was born on 8 February 1891, the son of Franz Walde, a teacher, and Maria Walde (née Ritzer). In 1892, the family moved to Kitzbühel, where Alfons’ father became headmaster. From 1903, he attended secondary school in Innsbruck, from which he graduated with distinction in 1910. It was at this school that he first demonstrated his artistic abilities through watercolour and tempera paintings in the Expressionist style. From 1910 to 1914, Walde studied at the Technical University in Vienna. During this time, he mostly stayed with his aunt in Kirchdorf in Upper Austria. He painted the farms, fields and gardens using soft, warm watercolour tones. He first exhibited his paintings in 1911 and 1913 at the Czichna bookshop and at the Vienna Secession. Between 1914 and 1918, he enlisted as a one-year volunteer in the Austrian State Rifle Regiment and was promoted to cadet in 1915 and later to ensign. He served in South Tyrol on Monte Piano and Pasubio, as well as in Bosnia. He received several awards for his service during the war. In 1917 he returned from Bosnia as an Imperial Rifle Lieutenant and resumed his studies in 1918. Back in his hometown of Kitzbühel at the end of 1918, he painted oil paintings such as ‘Fairy Market in Kitzbühel’ and ‘Going to Church’. But he also produced nude drawings such as “Bather at the Schwarzsee” and “Naked Back Nude”. In 1919, he became friends with the Viennese workers’ poet Alfons Petzold, who had settled in Kitzbühel, and later also painted his portrait. In 1920, he exhibited his works again for the first time since the war, in Vienna. In 1924, he won first and second prizes in the Tyrolean Transport Office competition. In 1925, he married Hilda Lackner from Kitzbühel. In the same year, she took part in the Biennale Romana in Rome and was awarded the Julius Reich Artist Foundation Prize. From then on, he had his pictures printed as posters and postcards by his own publishing house, thereby marketing his works of art to the general public. In 1930, after divorcing his first wife, Lilly Walter, Walde married again and had a daughter. In 1932 he painted, amongst other works, pictures such as “Kaiser-Hochalm” and “Late Winter”. That year he also designed his first official Tyrol poster. In 1940, he married for the third time. From 1946, he devoted himself intensively to his work on architectural projects and was awarded the title of professor on his 65th birthday in 1956. On 11 December 1958, Walde, who had been suffering from a heart condition for a long time, suffered a heart attack at his sister’s house and died. Walde himself founded the art publishing house Alfons Walde in 1923, which sold his most popular images as postcards and later as art prints. He painted many of the most popular motifs himself. Whilst he was accused of being a mass-market painter, this high volume of image production also brought him widespread international popularity. Furthermore, as early as 1930, numerous unauthorised copies, imitations and forgeries were produced; Walde took legal action against these, but they still circulate on the market today. Other artists and styles: Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Herbert Boeckl, Carl Moser, Franz Wiegele, Robin Christian Andersen, Anton Faistauer, Franz Sedlacek, Albin Egger-Lienz, Secession, Expressionism, Art Nouveau, New Objectivity PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price comprises the highest bid plus the buyer’s premium, VAT and, where applicable, the artists’ resale rights fee and platform fee. In the case of standard taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13 per cent (20 per cent for photographs) is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer’s premium and the platform fee. The buyer’s premium amounts to 28 per cent in the case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
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