László Paál
László Paál (born July 30, 1846 in Sameschdorf , Transylvania , † March 4, 1879 in Charenton-le-Pont , France ) was a Hungarian landscape painter and impressionist .
Life
László Paál studied art at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1864 and became a student of the German painter Albert Zimmermann there from 1866 . In 1869 he exhibited some of his works for the first time in a larger exhibition in Munich , where he met painters from the French Barbizon School for the first time . Together with Eugen Jettel he went on a study trip to the Netherlands in 1870 and in the same year went to Düsseldorf on the recommendation of Mihály Munkácsy . In the following year Paál traveled to London at the invitation of the art dealer Forbes , where he, among other things, bought the paintings of John Constable got to know.
From 1873 Paál himself lived in the Barbizon artists' colony and was then a regular participant in the Paris Salon . In 1873 he received an award medal for the painting Sunset at the World Exhibition in Vienna and in 1878 for Weg im Wald von Fontainebleau at the World Exhibition in Paris . In 1874 he was listed as a member of the Düsseldorf artist association Malkasten . He died in 1879 and left behind a complete oeuvre of 65 paintings, his estate was auctioned in Paris in 1880.
painting
László Paál was best known for his realistic landscape paintings, which strongly influenced the art of painters such as his teacher Mihály Munkácsy, Max Liebermann and Carl Fredrik Hill . Especially after 1870 his painting became more impressionistic with clearly broad brushstrokes. Today, despite his few pictures, Paál is considered one of the most important and influential landscape painters in Hungary.
gallery
Way home (Hungarian Hazafelé ) oil on canvas, ca.1871 , private collection
Path in the Forest of Fontainebleau (Hungarian Út a fontainebleau-i erdőben ), oil on canvas, 1876, inventory of the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Landscape (Hungarian Táj ), oil on canvas, not dated, private collection
The Barbizon Forest (Hungarian Barbizoni erdő ), oil on canvas, 1877, private collection
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literature
- Paal, Ladislaus . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 211
- K. Benda: Paál László. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 275.
- Götz Czymmek (Hrsg.): Landscape in the light. Impressionist painting in Europe and North America 1860–1910. Exhibition catalog of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne and the Kunsthaus Zürich 1990
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paál, László |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian impressionist landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zam , Transylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1879 |
| Place of death | Charenton-le-Pont , France |