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Andor Basch (May 19, 1885 – June 24, 1944) was a Hungarian painter whose works have been featured in the Hungarian National Gallery. He is the son of painter Gyula Basch.
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Andor Basch (May 19, 1885 – June 24, 1944) was a Hungarian painter whose works have been featured in the Hungarian National Gallery. He is the son of painter Gyula Basch.
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His life He was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Budapest. His mother Róza Krausz (Terezia); his father was Gyula Basch, a well-known portrait and portrait painter of his time. Andor Basch graduated from the Catholic high school after being baptized in 1899. He was a student of Tivadar Zemplényi, who represented the academic style, at the Model Drawing School in Budapest. From 1904, he continued his art studies in Paris, where he studied with Jean-Paul Laurens at the famous Julian Academy and spent a year at Henri Matisse's private school. In 1908, he went to Baia Mare (Nagybánya), where for three years he was tutored by Károly Ferenczy, one of the defining personalities of the painting school. He presented his pictures for the first time in 1919 at a joint exhibition in the Ernst Museum (Budapest). In the next few years he traveled around Italy, and in 1925 he moved to Paris. He regularly participated in exhibitions, managed to sell his pictures, and received both financial and moral recognition. He found his own style with difficulty; for a while he retreated from the "fine art witch dance" (he wrote in a letter) and the lifestyle of the capital…