Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of The War Series, a group of nine semi-abstract welded steel sculptures, created by Peter Dallos (originally Deutsch) about his childhood experiences in German occupied Hungary and as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust and World War II.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Peter Dallos.
Browse 9 Items In This Collection
War, a minimalist welded steel sculpture symbolizing childhood memories of WWII in Budapest
Object | Accession Number: 2012.338.1
Destruction, a minimalist welded steel sculpture symbolizing childhood memories of the chaos of WWII in Budapest
Object | Accession Number: 2012.338.2
Confinement, a semi-abstract welded sculpture representing a deportation roundup
Object | Accession Number: 2012.338.3
Alone, a minimalist steel sculpture symbolizing the alienated existence of a refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.338.4
Bombardment, a steel sculpture symbolizing childhood memories of the hunt for food during the nonstop bombing of Budapest
Object | Accession Number: 2012.338.5
Air Raid, a semi-abstract steel sculpture resembling a bombed building based upon childhood memories of WWII in Budapest
Object | Accession Number: 2012.338.6
Forced March No 1., steel and brass allegorical sculpture symbolizing prisoners on a forced march into a chasm
Object | Accession Number: 2012.338.7
Forced March No. 2, an allegorical steel sculpture representing a childhood memory of a roundup of Jews for deportation
Object | Accession Number: 2012.338.8
Allegorical steel sculpture made to honor Raoul Wallenberg by an artist who was one of the 1000s saved by his efforts
Object | Accession Number: 2012.338.9
commemoration: 1944-1945
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