Fried pal biography

Fried Pál (1893 - 1976) - híres magyar festő, grafikus...

Fried, Pál (1893 - 1976) - famous hungarian painter, graphic

Pál Fried

American painter

Pál Fried

Born16 June 1893

Budapest, Hungary

Died6 March 1976

New York City

NationalityHungarian/American
EducationAcadémie hongroise des arts, Budapest; Académie Julian, Paris
Known forNudes, portraits, landscapes, genre scenes
StylePortraiture, Orientalist themes

Pál Fried (16 June 1893 in Hungary – 6 March 1976 in New York City) was a Hungarian artist best known for his eroticized paintings of female dancers and nudes.

Life and career

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Pál Fried was born in Budapest in 1893. He received his art education at the Académie hongroise des arts (Hungarian Academy of Arts) where he was a pupil of Hugo Pohl who became one of his major influences. While under Pohl's direction, he executed many portraits of female nudes and Orientalist works. Later he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he was the pupil of Claude Monet and Lucien Simone.[1] In Paris, he was greatly influenc