Edith Basch

Edith Basch (born September 30, 1895 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died May 16, 1980 in Rome ) was a painter from Hungary who worked in Rome.

In the Babits Múzeum in Esztergom you can find her autograph on this photo at eleven o'clock

Life

Edith Basch studied painting at the “Nagybányai művésztelep” art academy in Nagybánya with István Réti and Béla Iványi-Grünwald . In 1929 she went to Paris, where she became a member of the Société du Salon d'Automne and exhibited the two pictures Portrait de jeune fille and Nu in the Salon des Indépendants . From 1931 to 1933 she studied in Rome and then stayed there. It was last mentioned in 1961 with an exhibition in New York. She is buried on the Cimitero acattolico in Rome.

Basch painted portraits in oils and landscapes in watercolor. Her portrait of Mihály Babits , painted in 1932, is in the possession of the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest.

literature

Jürgen Tiede: Basch, Edith . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 7, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22747-7 , p. 340.
Basch, Edit (h) , in: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays , Gründ, Paris 1999, volume 1, p. 827.

Web links

Edith Basch on artnet .de

Individual evidence

↑ Accademia di Danimarca, The Protestant Cemetery, grave 846 . Edith Basch shares her grave there with her sister Ilona Basch (1889–1980), who also worked as a painter.
^ Portrait of Mihály Babit on the museum's website.

personal data
SURNAME	Basch, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Basch, Edit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 30, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest
DATE OF DEATH	May 16, 1980
Place of death	Rome

[1] Accademia di Danimarca, The Protestant Cemetery, grave 846 . Edith Basch shares her grave there with her sister Ilona Basch (1889–1980), who also worked as a painter.

[2] Portrait of Mihály Babit on the museum's website.