‘19th century’
Balázs Zoltán Tóth
Chief Museologist (Photo Archive) He graduated in 2005 from the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at SZTE BTK and from the Department of Cultural Organising and Media at SZTE-JGYTFK. From 2008 to 2010 he was a student at The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava. In 2013, he was a fellow at NEDCC, Andover, USA. In 2019, he …
Collection of Artist Relics
… and national heroes was an important element of Hungarian museum acquisition from the nineteenth century onwards. Prominent artists were surrounded by a veritable cult; elegant receptions and ceremonies were organised for them, and their funerals were held with great pomp, attracting huge crowds. Later, anniversary commemorations were regularly held to honour their memory. Thus it was only natural that, alongside artists’ works and documents, museums should also add artists’ belongings to …
Dániel Lőrinczi
Museologist (Archive of the Lectorate) In 2017 he received his master’s degree in art history from Pázmány Péter Catholic University, and since 2017 he has been working at the Archive of the Hungarian National Gallery. Since 2019 his main field of activity has been the management and processing of the materials of the Archive of the Lectorate for Fine- and Applied Arts along with the related …
Eszter Békefi
… 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. List of …
Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári
… interests include the Hungarian art and institutional history of the second half of the 20th century, and more specifically, the public and poster art of the period, as well as industrial design and object culture. She is a lecturer at the University of Fine Arts, a professional consultant at Köztérkép, and vice-president of the Hungarian Poster Association. She publishes regularly in professional journals and online forums on the topics of the 20 th -century history of design, …