(b Budapest, 4 June 1896; d Budapest, 23 Nov 1944). Hungarian painter and draughtsman. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest (1916–24). He then went to France on a scholarship (1924–6), where he painted for a few months in Macherin and Barbizon, and was influenced by 19th-century painters of paysage intime and by the Hungarian painter László Paál. He admired French Symbolist poetry and wrote verse himself. In Paris Goebel studied drawing at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Apart from life studies he painted mainly portraits; his self-portraits are the most memorable. In 1925 he had a one-man exhibition at the Galerie du Zodiaque, Paris, and in 1926 became a member of the Barbizon Artists’ Association. After returning to Hungary he spent six months at the Nagybánya colony. In 1928 he took the name Paizs and in the same year was a founder-member of the Szentendre Painters’ Association; he remained in Szentendre for most of the rest of his life.