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Marinka Dallos (Lőrinci, 4th february of 1929 – Rome, 11th december of 1992) was an hungarian painter.

Biography
Marinka Dallos was born the 4th february of 1929 in Lőrinci, a tiny town in the north province of Heves, Hungary, where she spent her child and youth. In 1949, during the international convention of young comunists of Budapest, she met the italian poet Gianni Totii, with whom she will marry one year later and will start an italian life in Milan. In 1952, Marinka y Gianni move to Rome where they translate a lot of hungarian poets, like Attila Jòzsef and Miklós Radnóti. Since the 60s, Marinka discovered her artistic vocation. To give a breath at Gianni's activism, Marinka bought some paint brush and paints, and she takes him to different italian cities to paint them. This is how she starts painting too. During some time she does not show any of her paintings to anyone, until two of her friends convinve her to be recognized. In 1974 she found the group "Romanaïf" together with other roman painters like Amelia Pardo, Graziolina Rotunno, Alfredo Ruggeri or Maria Vicentini, and they publish a collection of theorical essays about the phenomenon naïf. She went from one exhibition to another in Italy until she reached Paris, Budapest, Niza...

Most of her works were inspired in Rome, from the sparkling life of Campo dei Fiori, la Fontana delle Tartarughe, I Fantasmi del Tevere, Trinità dei Monti up to the squares and narrow streets from the centre of the city. But, constantly accompanied by the memories and colours from the rural world where she was born. After her death, the 11th december of 1992, Toti dedicate her the VideoPoemOpera Planetopolis (1994). Currently, Marinka Dallos works are dissipated over the world. Some of them appear in museum collcetions (La Halle Saint Pierre de París, the museum Anatole Jakovsky de Niza, el Magyar Naiv Müveszek de Kecskemét, the International Museum of Arte Naïf in Spain and the museum of Artes Naïf of Luzzara). Others are in private collectionists hands. The works full of landscapes from Marinka Dallos of the original house Via dei Giornalisti are currently settled between the headquarters of La Casa Totiana and the Colegio Lante de la Rovere in Via Tevere, Rome.

Referencies
The Totian House[1 ]