Imre Goth Art

Imre Goth was a well known Hungarian portraitist and figurative painter. Goth studied at Budapest Academy and later in Berlin in the 1920s with Arthur Kampf. As he achieved recognition as a portrait painter, he received commissions from the stars of the emerging Berlin film industry, and in the early 1930s, he was commissioned to paint both Field Marshall Hermann Wilhelm Göring and his wife. In 1935, he showed a collection of his works at the New Galleries in Birmingham and with favorable criticism, decided to immigrate to England. Through his friendship with the Hungarian film producer Alexander Korda and his success in Birmingham, he was commissioned by high society to paint their portraits and he painted celebrated actors such as Ralph Richardson, Michael Wilding, Ann Todd and Margaret Leighton, some while he was employed by Korda to paint portraits for film sets.