Dušan Kállay, born in Bratislava (Slovakia), graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bratislava, where he teaches nowadays. When he was a student he met Kamila Štanclová and started to share with her a fundamental artistic and human sodality (they married in 1971). During their years together, these two artistic worlds influenced and stimulated each other till they totally merged as on the occasion of the huge piece (about one thousand illustrations) made for the volumes of “Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy tales”, an impressive work published in 2005 and 2006 by the major European publishers.
Dušan Kállay brought back to life children’s classics among which Oscar Wilde’s “The Birthday of the Infanta”, published in Italy by Bohem Press.
Internationally renowned as one of the leading masters of illustration, he was awarded many prizes such as Hans Christian Andersen medal and the Gran Prix at Biennial of Illustration in Bratislava.
Dušan Kállay brought back to life children’s classics among which Oscar Wilde’s “The Birthday of the Infanta”, published in Italy by Bohem Press.
Internationally renowned as one of the leading masters of illustration, he was awarded many prizes such as Hans Christian Andersen medal and the Gran Prix at Biennial of Illustration in Bratislava.
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