Dante : Inferno.

It is a 3/4 portrait of a man facing right. Dante, Inferno is written in the lower right hand corner. There are dark shadows and his eyes are staring out toward the right. It is signed in the lower left hand side and dated 1932 Vienna.Digital imageDante Alighieri (1265-1321) was a Florentine poet and statesman, whose pre-Renaissance poem, the “Divine Comedy”, has been read ever since. The first part of the poem - “Inferno” - describes the author’s journey through “Hell”.Bertalan Göndör was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1908, the younger brother of Emery (Imre) Gondor. Bertalan studied art in Budapest and Vienna and worked as an artist and an illustrator. After the Hungarian “White Terror” (1919-1920) he lived in Vienna, returning to Budapest once Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938. During World War II, he was conscripted into forced labor in eastern Hungary and consequently deported to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, where he died in March of 1945