This essay assesses the role of regionalism in interwar Austrian painting with a focus on the Tyrolean painter and architect Alfons Walde (1891–1958). At a time when painting was seen to be in crisis, eclipsed by the deaths of prominent Viennese artists such as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, regionalism offered an alternative engagement with modern art. As the representative of a wider regionalist movement, Walde paved the way for a clearly identifiable image of rural Austria without foregoing the modernization process that took place in the Alps at the time. Filtering essential elements of local culture and synthesizing them with both a modern formal language and “modern” topics, most significantly ski tourism, he created a regionalism that reverberated beyond the narrow confines of his home province and caught particular momentum during the rise of the Austrian Ständestaat in the 1930s. Moving in between regional and national significance, Walde's work underlines the essential position of the region in Austria after 1918 and conveys that an engaged regionalism that responded to the rapid cultural and political changes taking place became a significant aspect of interwar Austrian painting.

本文评估了区域主义在两次世界大战之间的奥地利绘画中的作用，重点是提洛尔画家和建筑师阿尔方斯·瓦尔德（Alfons Walde，1891-1958年）。当时绘画被视为危机，当时古斯塔夫·克里姆特（Gustav Klimt）和埃贡·席勒（Egon Schiele）等维也纳著名画家的逝世使他黯然失色，区域主义为现代艺术提供了另一种选择。作为更广泛的区域主义运动的代表，沃尔德为清晰地展现奥地利乡村形象铺平了道路，而没有超越当时阿尔卑斯山发生的现代化进程。过滤当地文化的基本要素，并将其与现代形式语言和“现代”主题进行综合，最重要的是滑雪旅游，1930年代的Ständestaat。瓦尔德的作品在区域和国家意义之间转移，突显了该地区在1918年后在奥地利的重要地位，并传达了一种对迅速的文化和政治变化做出反应的积极参与的区域主义成为战时奥地利绘画的重要方面。