Alfons Walde (8 February 1891 - 11 December 1958), an Austrian from Kitzbuhel in the Tyrol, was the first artist to successfully bring skiing as a subject into painting. These sporting scenes together with his winter landscapes and farming images, rendered in a unique tempera style with impastose colouring, complemented his other artistic gifts as both an architect and graphic artist. Many of his paintings can be seen in the Museum gallery in Kitzbuhel. Wikipedia
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