Eszter Békefi

She graduated at the Department of Art History at ELTE BTK and started working for the Research Group for Restitution at the Hungarian National Gallery in 1995, and from 2007 she was a staff member in its Archive Department. Since 2021 she has been the chief museologist of the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK) and manager of the Archive of 19th and 20th Century Art, principally for Our House corpus, a collection of the documentation of the Hungarian National Gallery’s scientific work. Her fields of research are mid-19th century painting and the history of Hungarian art collecting, especially before World War 2. In 2009 she was one of the curators of the exhibition József Borsos, Painter and Photographer.

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