Alfons Walde
#Photographe
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Les photographies du peintre Alfons Walde
WestLicht, Museum for Photography, exhibits the unknown erotic photographs of painter Alfons Walde, about 120 works from the artist’s estate which rested unnoticed in a box for decades. The focus of his photography was on the female nude, the staging of the motifs ranging all the way to pornography. The use of Agfa colour film, then a recent invention, enabled Walde to render realistic scenes photographically, to be used as inspiration for his paintings. For the history of photography, which focuses overwhelmingly on black-and-white images, the discovery is a sensation, not only in terms of cultural history.
The exhibition introduces the landscape painter Alfons Walde (b. Oberndorf 1891, d. Kitzbühel 1958) as a passionate photographer whose photographic studies, taken predominantly from the 1920s to the 194...
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WestLicht, Museum for Photography, exhibits the unknown erotic photographs of painter Alfons Walde, about 120 works from the artist’s estate which rested unnoticed in a box for decades. The focus of his photography was on the female nude, the staging of the motifs ranging all the way to pornography. The use of Agfa colour film, then a recent invention, enabled Walde to render realistic scenes photographically, to be used as inspiration for his paintings. For the history of photography, which focuses overwhelmingly on black-and-white images, the discovery is a sensation, not only in terms of cultural history.
The exhibition introduces the landscape painter Alfons Walde (b. Oberndorf 1891, d. Kitzbühel 1958) as a passionate photographer whose photographic studies, taken predominantly from the 1920s to the 194...