Snow Affairs

In Vienna, in the years prior to the First World War, Alfons Walde, son of the headmaster of Kitzbühel elementary school Franz Walde, grappled with works by Gustav Klimt and his friend, Egon
Schiele. Upon his return home from duties on the front-line in the First World War to the sophisticated Kitzbühel of the 1920s and 1930s, he developed his largely independent style, though it was indeed committed to Expressionism and New Objectivity. His particularly esteemed snow landscape scenes (amongst them “Almen im Schnee”) and winter sport pictures (e. g. “Aufstieg der Skifahrer”) fundamentally contributed to the image of Tirol as a mountain area for winter sport.

Snow Affairs event preview 2008/09

From May 2008: Free guided forest hike to the Walde motives in Kitzbühel’s mountain scenery. Every Thursday; information & registration with Kitzbühel Tourismus.

Every Thursday in July and August 2008:  Working and living areas – Guided tours through the Walde gallery in the museum with a tour on the traces of the painter in the city to finish off. Start: 6.00 p.m. Kitzbühel Museum (Duration until approx. 7.30 p.m.), Entry: € 5,- / 2,- (Children and teenagers up to the age of 18).

12th to 26th 07. 2008: Kitzbühel Painting Week “Alfons Walde” with Rudolph Pigneter. Examination of Walde motives with workshop to finish, Register at: +43 (0) 664 240 49 82, r.pigneter@aon.at

07. 08. 2008: “Kitz Sommernacht” in the drawings of Alfons Walde in the entire Kitzbühel town centre area.

28. 11. 2008: “Vom Schnee” exhibition opening in Kitzbühel town centre

29. 11. 2008 until 11.4. 2009: “Vom Schnee” exhibition in
Kitzbühel Museum
Hinterstadt 32
6370 Kitzbühel
T: +43 (0) 5356 67274
www.museum-kitzbuehel.at
info@museum-kitzbuehel.at





Alfons Walde article and catalogue to accompany the exhibition
(available at the opening of the exhibition) at Kitzbühel Museum
and Kitzbühel Tourismus.

Start Dec. 2008: Snow symposium on the Hahnenkamm

11. 12.2008: On the 50th anniversary of the death of Alfons Walde, lecture by Prof. Gert Ammann about the life and work of Alfons Walde.

January/February 2008: Kitzbühel snow painting weeks with Rudolph Pigneter. A look at Walde motives with workshop to finish, Register at: +43 (0) 664 240 49 82, r.pigneter@aon.at

Zwei SnowAffairs - SPECIALTIPS:
“In the tracks of the Kitzbühel skiing legends”. Visit Kitzbühel Bergbahnmuseum and the starting area for the Streif ski run on the Hahnenkamm. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Entry free! As part of the SnowAffairs range of exhibitions, works by Dieter Deller with the theme “What´s behind the great White” will be shown as highlights in Sportpark Kitzbühel and by Hahnenkamm-Bergbahn AG (Valley and Mountain station).

The Kitzbühel painter Alfons Walde (1891-1958) characterised the image of Tirol with his snow landscape scenes. In the picture: Alfons Walde in a  historic photograph in the mountains in the  Kitzbüheler Alpen.

Mayurama Naufumi, Skifahrer, 1999, Acrylic on cotton, 61 cm x 73 cm, Courtesy: Galerie Murata & Friends,Berlin

Dieter Deller,“Permanent Snow Nr. 11”, Still from computer animation, digital print on  aluminium, 70 cm x 120 cm

Series of events on the 50th anniversary of the death of Alfons Walde 2008-2009

“Vom Schnee” exhibition opening times:
29. 11. – 20. 12. 2008: Wed. to Fri, Sun. 2 p.m. – 6 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
21.12.08 – 8.3.2009 Daily from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Thursday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
(25.12.08, 1.1. and 24.1.09 Closed.)
9.3. – 11.4. 2009 Wed. to Fri. 2 p.m. – 5 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Entry prices:
Adults € 6,-
Local people with ID, Visitor Card € 5,-
Groups from 10 people; Tirol Family Card € 4,-
Children and Teenagers (up to 18) € 2,-
School groups (per pupil) € 1,-
Children under 6 free

Museum Kitzbühel
Hinterstadt 32
6370 Kitzbühel
T: +43 (0) 5356-67274
www.museum-kitzbuehel.at 
info@museum-kitzbuehel.at
Design, Exhibition and Guided Tours by Museum Kitzbühel (Director.Wido Sieberer), curated by Günther Moschig.

Overview of areas and places of the SnowAffairs exhibition events:

1 Kitzbühel Museum and Walde Gallery and “Vom Schnee” exhibition, Hinterstadt 32
2 Start of the Walde hike
3 Approach to Symposium / Bergbahnmuseum / Installations
4 Alfons Walde bust
5 Town centre / Kitz Sommernacht
6 Sportpark Kitzbühel “What´s behind the great White”


Kitzbühel Tourismus
Information on the series of events