Aloys Wach was born as Aloys Wachlmaier in 1892 in Lambach. He was the artist with the closest links to international art movements, partly as a result of visits to Berlin and Paris in 1913/14. However, in the 1920s he distanced himself categorically from Expressionism, Cubism and Futurism. One reason for this was undoubtedly his move from Munich to Aufhausen near Überackern in 1919 and Braunau in 1922. In Braunau he had a studio in the tower of the old town gate. By his own account, it was here that he succeeded in developing a form of expression that suited him. Aloys Wach was one of the founder members of the Innviertel Artists’ Guild alongside Hugo von Preen, Wilhelm Dachauer and Louis Hofbauer.

Around 1925, Wach began to focus on rural subjects, transforming and historicising them. He depicted scenes from the era of the Peasants’ War in Upper Austria in 1625/26. Wach’s mystical religious period began in the early 1930s. His story is one of failed talent, whose horizons were restricted and which was subjugated to economic and political currents.

Aloys Wach died in 1940.