Alfons Walde (1891, Oberndorf in Tirol - 1958, Kitzbühel, Austria) was an architect, graphic designer and publisher who gained even greater fame as a painter of Expressionist Tyrolian winter alpine views. Walde was a son of the teacher Franz Walde and Maria Walde (b. Ritzer). In 1892 the family moved to Kitzbuhel, where Alfon's father was headmaster. From 1903, he attended secondary school in Innsbruck, where he graduated in 1910 with honors. At this school he first showed his artistic skills in the form of watercolor - and tempera paintings. Walde developed his own unique style focusing on people and their houses in high mountain regions, earning him a place among the so-called "magic realists".

Walde began to study architectu...