‘ADK’
Postcards of Judit Reigl
In 2021 forty-seven postcards were gifted to our collection. They were written between spring 1950 and February 1963 by Judit Reigl and addressed to her parents and—after her mother’s death—to her stepfather. Although the postcards often contain references to long letters she had written, as far as we know, only these short messages have survived from this early period of Judit Reigl’s life. …
Réka Pálinkás
… National Gallery since 2010. As chief museologist of the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK), her main fields of research include the art of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries as well as protected Hungarian artworks of high priority in private ownership. She compiled the oeuvre catalogue for the retrospective exhibition of Károly Ferenczy’s work at the HNG, and is currently one of the editors of the forthcoming volume of József Rippl-Rónai’s correspondence.
Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss
The publication is related to research on the history of photography conducted by KEMKI ADK. It contains extended and edited texts from the presentations given at the conference entitled Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss. The diversely themed essays in the volume provide new interpretations of attitudes that prevailed in Hungarian documentary photography and photojournalism in the post-WWII period. Illustrated with images …
The Béla Gruber Documents
Béla Gruber (1936–1963) was a prominent figure in a generation of painters that started out in the 1960s. During his short life he spent only a few years painting and yet he left behind more than a thousand works. Béla Gruber’s works can be found in numerous public collections and permanent exhibitions. He entrusted the care and estate of his paintings to his sister, Ágota Gruber Strakovitsné, …
The Correspondence of József Rippl-Rónai
… importance, long awaited by those interested in modern Hungarian art, is prepared by KEMKI ADK in collaboration with renowned Rippl-Rónai experts. Our aim is to compile an exhaustive collection and publish every letter ever written by and to Rippl-Rónai. Our estimate is about nine hundred letters in total. The manuscripts are to be published in accordance with the publication guidelines used in literary science, including notes providing the most important information, reproductions of …