Paul Bhajjan (contemporary)

[From the Community Collection, a public trust in Agincourt, Iowa]

BHAJJAN, Paul (born 1995)

“The Glorification of the Royal Hungarian Saints”

oil on panel /

2023

Paul Bhajjan is a young artist working in Fargo-Moorhead and attending art school at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Paul is a realist painter heavily invested in the Baroque era of painting. This painting was an anonymous gift to the Community Collection.

Among Bhajjan’s inspirations is the Austrian painter Franz Anton Maulbertsch who painted the subject of Paul’s study. The original Maulbertsch painting of 1772-1773 is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.

It’s appropriate that this is the first post of the New Year.