‘19th century’

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Imre Kiss

Digitalization Assistant (Technical Group) Imre Kiss is a graduate of the Photography Program of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Kaposvár, (2018). He worked as an exhibition coordinator at Mai Manó House and then at acb Gallery, where he was responsible for the background work for exhibitions and art fairs. In 2018, he was awarded a grant by the Association of Hungarian …

György Gyuró

Assistant Museologist (Photo Archive) He earned an MA in Aesthetics and in Art History from the Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE). He completed his internship at artportal.hu.

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 …

Ferenc Gosztonyi

… Chief Museologist of KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK). His fields of expertise include 19th and 20th century Hungarian and world art, international relations of Hungarian art, and the history of art history writing. His publications also cover these topics, and he also works as an editor of professional and reference publications. List of publications

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 …

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