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Paul Mathias Padua

* 1903, Salzburg 1981, Tegernsee

Paul Mathias Padua
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* 1903, Salzburg, 1981, Tegernsee

Paul Mathias Padua
Paul Mathias Padua left school early to focus on his artistic interests but was largely self-taught, basing his studies on the work of Wilhelm Leibl (1844 – 1900) and the artists of Leibl’s circle. He exhibited for the first time at the Munich Glaspalast in 1922 and joined the Münchner Künstlervereinigung [the Munich Artists’ Association]. Numerous prizes followed: the Georg Schicht Preis in 1928, the Albrecht Dürer Preis in 1930 and a travel bursary awarded by the City of Munich in 1931. He travelled extensively and exhibited widely at home and abroad. In 1938, he began to exhibit regularly at the Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung in Munich’s Haus der Kunst. He was engaged as a war artist at the start of the Second World War but released after being wounded. He moved to St. Wolfgang in Austria in 1943 and in 1951 settled in Rottach-Egern in Bavaria, where he opened a gallery exhibiting his work. In 1960, he started to travel regularly to Portugal making lengthy visits to the fishing village of Nazaré.

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Paris, Musée de Luxembourg

München, Bayerische Staatsoper

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Wolfgang Schmidt, Maler an der Front: die Kriegsmaler der Wehrmacht und deren Bilder von Kampf und Tod, in: Der Krieg im Bild – Bilder vom Krieg, 2003, S. 45-76 Volker G. Probst, Paul Mathias Padua Maler zwischen Tradition und Moderne, Galerie Ars, Neuss 1981