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Paál, László
(b Zám, 30 July 1846; d Charenton, 3 March 1879). Hungarian painter. As a schoolboy he attended the painting school of Pál Böhm (1839–1905) in Arad (now in Romania). He later travelled throughout Transylvania; Sunset on the Banks of the Maros (1864; Pécs, Pannonius Mus.) is a characteristically romantic painting of this period. In 1866 he was admitted to the landscape painting class of Albert Zimmermann (1808–88) at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, where he met his lifelong friends Eugen Jettel, Emil Jacob Schindler (1842–92) and Mihály Munkácsy. He was greatly affected by the work of Courbet and painters of the Barbizon school, which he saw at the French exhibition in Munich in 1869. He went via Beilen in the Netherlands to Düsseldorf on the invitation of Munkácsy, where the art dealer Forbes J. Staates bought seven of his paintings and invited him and Munkácsy to London. After another sojourn in the Netherlands and Düsseldorf, he finally settled in Paris in 1873, spending half the year in Barbizon.
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