Hanna Dallos’ artworks

Wood Engravings 

	Hogyan szeretett es halt meg Rilke Kristof Kornetas, irta Rainer Maria Rilke. Hanna Dallos’ engraving of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke” (“The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke” – translated M.D. Herter Norton 1932), published by the Budapest University Press (Királyi Magyar Egyetemi Nyomda) in 1928. (Signed HD)
	Self-portrait, 1930 (signed HD)
	Urban lonelines (signed HD)
	Portrait of Izidor Kner, a Hungarian printer and bookbinder (1860-1935) (Signed HD)
	Series of 7 woodcuts depicting the life of Saint Emeric (Szent Imre), published by Budapest University Press 1930 (Signed HD)
	Diarium az 1931 - ik esztendőre (Almanac of the Year 1931), published by Budapest University Press. Hanna illustrated the front cover and the inside pages (woodcut prints)
	Három magyar város (Three Hungarian Cities), cover illustrated by Hanna Dallos,1933
	Joseph Dallos’ book-plate. Hanna’s brother Dr Dallos was an ophthalmologist who practised in Budapest from 1928 to 1937.
	Illustrations for the book Örök színház (Eternal Theatre) by Ifj. HorváthIstván, 1942. It contains approximately 40 illustrations, both scenes and drop cap woodcuts. Cover engraving: Exegi monumentum“aereperennius” (“I have created a monument more durable than bronze”, Ode III 30’s first verse, Odes. The poet, completing the collection of his first three books, promises immortality to his work).
	Unlike the others, this engraving is not signed HD. It evokes these lines from Talking with angels: Thanks be given to the infinite wisdom of the Divine that the small CHILD smilingly crosses over the abyss, for truly what was concealed from the wise has now been revealed to you little children that you are. (TA p. 126) The new Child is Divine. Its body is glorified Matter, transparent, subtle. Its soul is a growing, fruitbearing Ray. (TA p. 401)

In 1933, Budapest University Press published under the title Mi atyánk (Our Father) 10 woodcuts illustrating Gospel scenes. These engravings were reprinted in 1990 to illustrate István Nemeskürty’s book Magyar Biblia-fordítások - Hunyadi JánoskorátólPéterszázadáig (Hungarian Bible Translations from the Time of János Hunyadi to the Century of Péter Pázmány), published by Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó.

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Other personal works

	Caricature of Gitta Mallasz (courtesy of Bernard et Patricia Montaud)
	A Löbl-nyomda hatvan éve (A. Löbl Printing House 60th anniversary), 1936, Hanna Dallos illustrated the following images - this illustrated drop cap, this line drawing (also published in Le livre hongrois, Paris, 1937), and this drawing of the Löbl building.

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Production in the Mallasz-Dallos Workshop

The workshop was established in 1928 by Hanna Dallos and her husband in Buda, on Ilonka Szabo Street (today Ilona Street), under the Fishermen’s Bastion. They worked in advertising and promoted tourism in Hungary, they designed greeting cards and posters, illustrated books, designed fabrics... It was around 1934 that Gitta Mallasz joined her friends. Thanks to the cover she provided, the workshop was able to continue its activity until 1942.

Most of what came out of the workshop bore the signature “Mallasz Dallos” or more rarely “Dallos Mallasz”. Few works are signed “Dallos” or “Mallasz”. It is therefore difficult to know by whom these works were made. One can only rely on comparisons with works that can be attributed with certainty to one or the other. But it cannot be ruled out that the two friends collaborated on some of them either.

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Greeting Cards

The first 9 cards of the album were printed and distributed by Istvan Kanitz (1895-1953), a printer in Budapest, who frequented Hanna and Joseph’s workshop with Peter and Vera Szekely. Only three of them were signed Mallasz Dallos, but it is very likely that the other six also came from the workshop.

These cards, under copyright “Kanitz C. ésfia” (Kanitz and son), Budapest, were kindly provided by Kathleen Kelley-Lainé and Peter Kelley, daughter and son of Istvan Kanitz. They may not be reproduced without their permission.

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Miscellaneous

You can see other posters designed by Hanna Dallos and Gitta Mallasz in the 1930s in an article published in 2013 in Artmagazin : Szép vagy, gyönyörű vagy Magyarország (“Hungary, you are beautiful, you are splendid!”) - title of a very popular song from the 1920s.

Translated by Treharne Translations