| BIOGRAPHICAL TIMELINE: |
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| 1891 |
Born in Oberndorf (suburb of Kitzbühel), Austria, on February 8; son of Maria (née Ritzer) and Franz Walde. |
| 1892 |
Moves to Kitzbühel, where his father becomes school director |
| 1903-1910 |
Attends the Imperial-Royal Secondary Modern School in Innsbruck. First aquarel and tempera works. |
| 1910-1914 |
Studies at the Technical University of Vienna (Architecture). Visits Kirchdorf, Upper-Austria; lives in Weidlingsau (suburb of Vienna). Contact with Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt. Receives support from the architect, Robert Oerley. |
| 1911 |
First exhibtion in Innsbruck (Czichna Gallery). |
| 1913 |
First exhibition at the Wiener Secession. |
| 1914-1918 |
One year of volunteer service in the Imperial-Royal Landesschützenregiment 2, followed by service in the Landesschützenregiment 3, in Innichen, including tours of duty near Monte Piano, Zugna Torta and Pasubio. |
| 1917 |
Returns home as a Kaiserschützenleutnant (Imperial Lieutenant). |
| 1918 |
Returns to the Technical University of Vienna for the summer semester of 1917-1918. Contact with Egger-Lienz with regards to founding of a chamber of artists. |
| 1919 |
Friendship with the "workers’ poet,” Alfons Petzold, who had recently moved to Kitzbühel. |
| 1920 |
First exhibition after the end of the war in the Wiener Secession. |
| 1924 |
Takes first and second prize in a competition of the Tyrolian Traffic Office (theme: winter landscapes). Designs and helps complete (along with fellow artist Andreas Einberger) two Kaiserschützen (imperial soldiers) for the Tummelplatz in Innsbruck-Amras. Fiendship with Gustinus Ambrosi. |
| 1925 |
Marries Hilda Lackner, from Kitzbühel. Particpates in the Biennale Romana art exhibition in Rom; grant recipient of the Julius Reich artist foundation. |
| 1925/26 |
Participation at the moving exhibition Tiroler Künstler (Tyrolian Artists) in Rheinland-Westphalia. |
| 1926 |
Completes his first poster designs. |
| 1927 |
Chief planner in project planning and development for the cable car stations in Kitzbühel/Hahnenkamm. |
| 1928 |
First prize (shared with Painter Rudolf Stolz, from Bolzano, Italy) in a renewed competition to perform commissioned work for the train station in Innsbruck. |
| 1929 |
Builds his own house on the Hahnenkamm/Kitzbühel. Divorces Hilda Lackner. |
| 1930 |
Marries Lilly Walter, from Hall, Tyrol. His daughter, Guta-Eva, is born. |
| 1932 |
First offical poster release for a Tyrol-commissioned advertisemt. |
| 1935 |
Draws plans for the Hotel auf dem Brennerhof, in Kitzbühel. |
| 1935/37 |
Lawsuit and trial involving a fake Walde painting |
| 1938 |
Gestapo house search. |
| 1939 |
Divorces Lilly Walter |
| 1940 |
Marries Ida Tropschuh; recruits as a pioneer to Salzburg, after a few weeks released because of illness |
| 1946 |
Two months of imprisonment in Innsbruck, as the result of intrigues against him. Begins intensive preoccupation with architectural projects. |
| 1956 |
Awarded the title of Professor. |
| 1958 |
Died on December 11 from heart failure, while staying at his sister’s house in Kitzbühel |
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