His great-grandfather, Alessandro Angelo, the creator of the frescoes at the Hofburg in Vienna, and also, reputedly, designed sets for Gioachino Rossini.
[1] Pal Funk began to take photographs at ten, but his arts studies were not limited to photography: in 1910 he attended Carl Bauer's painting school in Munich and then the Peters photography studio in Hamburg, the Dührkopp-studio in Berlin, in the studios of Rudolf Dührkoop and Nicola Perscheidin Berlin, with Léopold-Émile Reutlinger in Paris, with Marcus Adams and with E. O. Hoppé in London.
Amongst those he photographed were Charlie Chaplin, Serge Lifar, Josephine Baker, Vaslav Nijinsky, Isadora Duncan, Pablo Picasso and Béla Bartók.
[1] During World War II, he was detained by the Gestapo due to his Jewish origins, however, he luckily managed to escape the fate of many other Hungarian Jews.
He has also worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with such big-name artists as Rex Ingram, Erich Pommer, Fritz Lang, Alexander Wolkoff, Ernst Lubitsch and Harry Lachman.
Angelo tried to meet the expectations of the age, he became a stakhanovite of the cooperative, photographing an estimated 450,000 people during his career.