Gyula Basch

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Gyula Basch (April 9, 1859, Budapest - January 8, 1928, Baden) was a Hungarian painter.

After completing his studies at the gymnasium, he attended the polytechnicinstitute at Zurich (1867-72), where he obtained his diploma as engineer. He devoted himself, however, exclusively to painting, and became first a dayscholar at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Paris (1873-74), and afterward a pupil of T. Paczka (1885) and of the painter L. Horovitz in Budapest (1888), finally occupying himself with genre and portrait painting.

[edit] Works

His principal works are:

• "Habt Acht!"
• "Die Erste Uniform"
• "More Patrio"
• "Nie!"

Among his portraits are those of the cellist David Popper, and the Hungarian statesman Dr. Max Falk (Miksa Falk).

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.