Steamboats of Chesapeake Bay (1929)

He studied in Nagybánya under Károly Ferenczy, and then went on study trips to Italy and Germany. From 1911 he exhibited at the National Salon and the Kunsthaus. He had a collection exhibition at the National Salon in 1919, at the Kunstgemeinschaft in Vienna in 1920 and 1921, and in the same year he participated in the Vienna Secession exhibition. At the end of 1923 he had another exhibition at Helikon Gallery in Budapest. In 1921, he opened his progressive free school, where his students such as Börzsönyi, Ferenc Kollarits, István Cserepes, Dezső Korniss, Gyula Derkovits and Victor Vasarely, Andor Sugár, István Dési Huber and Endre Szőllősi started their studies. In the early 1930s, he went to New York and then to Pretoria, South Africa, where he also opened his own painting school. 

The first stage of Podolini-Volkmann's career was defined by the painting of Nagybánya, especially the art of Ferenczy. In the early twenties, his paintings were associated with Daumier's paintings because of their themes, monumental, symbolic compositions and decorative qualities. He had a large oeuvre, which was scattered around the world as a result of his travels. He captured almost everything around him. Podolini-Volkmann went to New York for a short stay in 1929, and Steamboats of Baltimore (1929) depicts the moment when he arrives on the shores of America. The steamboats of the title and shown here were carrying mail packages on the Chesapeake Bay, primarily between Baltimore, Maryland and Norfolk, Virginia.