László Paál (30 July 1846, Zám,

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- 4 March 1879,

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, France) was a Hungarian

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landscape painter.

Life

He was descended from a noble family and his father was a postmaster, which resulted in frequent moves for the family. He displayed an early talent for art and his first lessons came from Pál Böhm in Arad. Upon his father's request, he went to Vienna in 1864 to study law, but began preparatory studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and became a student of Albert Zimmermann in 1866. Three years later, he participated in a major exhibition in Munich, where he first came into contact with painters of the Barbizon school. In 1870, he and

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took a study trip to the Netherlands and, later that same year, he entered the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf on the recommendation of his boyhood friend, Mihály Munkácsy. This was followed by an invitation to London, made by a major art dealer there, and his discovery of the works of

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. After 1873, he married and lived at the Barbizon art colony,Fine Arts in Hungary:
Brief Biography was a regular participant in the

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and won a medal at the Exposition Universelle (1878). By this time, his health had noticeably deteriorated (possibly from

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) and he suffered an accident at home, which resulted in a serious brain injury. He was placed in a nursing home, but never recovered, dying in the spring of 1879 at the age of 33.

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Detailed biography by Lázár László:
@ Művészet (1902)

Multiple biographies and appreciations of Paál's work

@ Művészet (1911) {{DEFAULTSORT:Paal, Laszlo 1846 births 1879 deaths Landscape painters 19th-century Hungarian painters Hungarian Impressionist painters Hungarian male painters 19th-century Hungarian male artists

Life

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