Gyula Basch was a Hungarian painter.

Basch was born in Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

. After completing his studies at the gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

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, he attended the polytechnicinstitute at Zurich

Zürich

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 (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

École des Beaux-Arts

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 at Paris

Paris

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 (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. He died in Baden

Baden

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.

Works

His principal works are:

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

Among his portrait

Portrait

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s are those of the cellist David Popper

David Popper

David Popper was a Bohemian cellist and composer.-Life:He was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory. He studied the cello under Julius Goltermann , and soon attracted attention...

, and the Hungarian statesman

Statesman

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 Dr. Max Falk (Miksa Falk

Miksa Falk

Miksa Falk was a Hungarian politician, journalist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the editor-in-chief of the German-language newspaper Pester Lloyd.-Early life:...

).