24 Facts About Alfred Pal

Alfred Pal was a Croatian painter and graphic designer.

Alfred Pal had an older brother, Aleksandar, who was two years older than him.

In 1931, Stefan Alfred Pal died while traveling to Krakow, where he was buried.

In 1932, Alfred Pal began to attend the high school in Vukovar, where one of his teachers was painter and designer Marijan Detoni.

Alfred Pal paid for his high school tuition by teaching German and mathematics.

Meanwhile, Alfred Pal's mother's acting career in Berlin stalled as she failed to make a successful transition to talkies, and returned to Vienna.

Alfred Pal graduated from high school in 1940, and that same year he enrolled at the Study of Architecture in Belgrade, but because of the numerus clausus he was sent on hold.

Alfred Pal forged a travel pass for himself and managed to reach Crikvenica, which was at the time occupied by the Italians.

On November 10,1942, Alfred Pal was arrested and taken to a detention camp in Kraljevica and was later transferred to Rab concentration camp.

In 1945 Alfred Pal moved to Zagreb, where he became the technical editor at the Ilustrirani Vjesnik weekly, and was one of the founders of the satirical newspaper Kerempuh, in 1945.

Alfred Pal served as editor of Kerempuh from 1947 to 1949.

Nevertheless, Alfred Pal continued to suffer discrimination, as he was denied travel documents and was kept under surveillance by the Yugoslav secret police UDBA.

From 1970 to 1984, Alfred Pal worked as an art editor at the Matica hrvatska publishing house, and from 1985 he worked as an independent artist.

Alfred Pal was a long time member of the Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts and one of the initiators and founders of Zgraf, a prestigious exhibition of graphic design established in 1975 and held every three years in Zagreb.

Alfred Pal worked on graphic design from the very beginnings, practically on medieval hand carved wood graphics during the war.

Alfred Pal was a master of book graphic design, in his long career he equipped a number of books from various libraries.

Alfred Pal was the author of numerous posters which he made; he worked for various clients such as; Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, Gavella Drama Theatre, Modern Gallery, Zagreb and others.

Alfred Pal's painting was on the line of gestural abstraction and sarcastic fiction.

Alfred Pal used encaustic technique in his painting, with which he got the surprising effects.

In 2010, Alfred Pal received the Vladimir Nazor Award for lifetime achievement in the category of fine and applied arts.

Alfred Pal was married to medical technician Branislava Alfred Pal, whom he meet in 1960.

Alfred Pal had two children, first born daughter Aleksandra was named after Alfred Pal's late brother, and son Petar Samuel was named after his grandfathers.

Alfred Pal was longtime member of the Jewish community in Zagreb.

Alfred Pal died on 30 June 2010 in Zagreb and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.