The famous Hungarian graphic artist Buday György collected Christmas postcards and wrote a book on them. He learned through his researches of graphic history that the first Christmas postcard was sent by the painter J. C. Horsley to his friend, one of the public figures of England, Sir H. Cole in 1843.

A post office in the Hungarian-Austrian Monarchy issued the first postcard in 1869. The one that had a picture on it, called the picture postcard, soon followed it. It was very popular from that time until WWI; this was the heyday of the genre. Still, postcards are the bearers of our good will on these holidays.

Postcards were made with different techniques. Those that were designed by graphic artists were more demanding. This time we select Christmas postcards designed by Hungarian artists from the beginning of the 20th century until WWII.

(Excerpt from the writing of the arts historian Horváth Hilda)