Pál (Paul) Böhm (28 December 1839,

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- 29 March 1905,

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) was a Hungarian

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painter.

Life and work

He first studied drawing with his father, who was a maintenance engineer at the bishop's manor. After finishing elementary school, he tried his hand at many crafts, including carpentry,

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ing and toy making. In 1859, he joined a group of scenery painters and learned that craft from .Böhm Pál
@ Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár In 1862, he finally decided to become a painter, eventually travelling to Vienna, where he copied the works on display in the Belvedere Palace. In 1865, he returned to his hometown and attempted to make a living by painting portraits and altarpieces. He also briefly operated a painting school that was attended by

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. Two years later, he was sufficiently established to earn a decent living and moved to

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, where he exhibited with the National Society of Hungarian Fine Arts. In 1871, he received a scholarship from

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, the Minister of Religion and Education. This enabled him to travel to Munich, where he quickly became part of the city's artistic life and associated with a group of Hungarian painters led by Géza Mészöly. On several occasions, he stayed in the

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region, where he painted and sketched, but settled in Munich permanently in 1875. After this point, his paintings lost some of their freshness and are generally considered by critics to be rather commercial.

Selected paintings

File:Böhm Betlehemes készülődés 1870.jpg, Preparing for the Nativity (1870) File:Pál Böhm Scene at the Bank of River 1873-75.jpg, Scene on the Banks
of the Tisza River (1873) File:Böhm, Pál - Tumbril.jpg, The

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(date unknown) File:Pal Böhm Im Münchner Hofbräuhaus.jpg, At a Brewery in Munich
(date unknown)

References

External links

Művészet
An appreciation and brief biography of Böhm by

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Life and work

Selected paintings

References

Further reading

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