DLA011-0009 Translation

Dresden A.

Marschwortstrasse 7.

18. VIII. [18]96.

Dear Laszlo,

Having just returned from summer holidays, I received your letter with the photographs and the exhibition catalogue.

Many thanks for being kind enough to send these. You have exhibited a very large number of works!^[1] I am only sorry that I don’t speak Hungarian, as the catalogue contains everything I need for the Künstler Lexikon.^[2]

You are enormously busy! That fate you share with me, and I even had to take some work with me for the holiday, as otherwise I would never finish.

I shall convey your greetings to Lehrs^[3] etc. when everybody returns from the holidays. At present Sponsel^[4] is the only one here.

Many thanks again for your catalogue, letter and photographs, and best wishes from your

Hans.W. Singer.

Pd’O

29/01/2006

[1] Possibly referring to the Millennium Exhibition held at the Műcsarnok, Budapest in 1896

[2] Singer published his Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon (General Artists’ Lexicon) in 5 volumes between 1895 and 1905 (Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt). De László’s entry appears in volume 2 (1896). A supplementary volume (1906) gives a cross reference to de László under “Laub”.

[3] Professor Max Lehrs (1855-1938), scholar of prints and engravings. From 1883, assistant to Karl Woermann; from 1896 to 1924, Director of the Cabinet of Prints and Engravings at Dresden

[4] Jean Louis Sponsel (1858-1930), art historian, assistant to Lehrs at the Cabinet of Prints and Engravings at Dresden. From 1908 to 1912, Director of the Grünes Gewölbe, of the Coin Collection and the Historical Museum in Dresden