‘ADK’
Zsuzsa G. Fábri's Artist Portrait Collection
… Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK) at the beginning of 2024. This outstanding collection of negatives and vintage enlargements is richly supplemented with additional information. The material also includes numerous never-before-seen photographs of well-known Hungarian artists (Miklós Borsos, Amerigo Tot, Károly Gink, Károly Koffán, János Kass, Endre Bálint, Ilona Keserű, etc.). In addition to some signed, unique enlargements, …
Zsófia Beke
… of the Zsuzsanna Erdélyi Collection (Christian Museum, Esztergom). She has been working at KEMKI-ADK since 2023. Since 1994, she has been published in the periodicals Új Művészet, Műértő and Balkon, as well as in exhibition catalogues. She has frequented artists’ colonies and edited publications. Her fields of specialisation include art theory, the theories of space and perception, and crossovers between the image and three-dimensional space.
The Oeuvre of György Konecsni
… a fresh perspective, is the first original publication of the Archive and Documentation Center (ADK) of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), which was founded in 2021. The volume entitled Seeing the Whole Picture is edited by Katalin Bakos and Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári. Authors include Katalin Bakos, Barbara Dudás, Ágnes Képiró, Mária Madár, Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári, György Szücs, Károly Tóth, Ádám Várkonyi, Dániel Véri.
The Estate of Lajos Vajda
… of the documents (which had been kept at home), who subsequently transferred the estate to the ADK archives of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History. These were the documents that Stefánia Mándy used for writing the Vajda monograph published in 1983. Among the written sources, special mention should be given to the letters and postcards written to Julia Vajda between 1936 and 1941, most of which were published by Jakovits and Kozák in 1996. Also of …
The Estate of Lajos Tihanyi
… of Lajos Tihanyi’s life and oeuvre, which also included these objects from Paris. The ADK collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (formerly the Art Archive of the Hungarian National Gallery) contains, among other things, Tihanyi’s correspondence with his artist and writer friends—a valuable and significant resource—as well as the artist’s notebooks revealing his network of professional contacts. From the point of view of art …