‘ADK’
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 …
The Endre Tót Archives
… Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History and it is now officially part of the ADK Collection. The Endre Tót Archives have preserved in a time capsule-like fashion the documents that served as the foundations for—and starting point of—the artist’s later career on the other side of the Iron Curtain. In the 1960s and 1970s and in a manner typical of the period, Endre Tót’s artistic undertakings—like those of many of his peers’—completely merged the mental and physical …
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 …
György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
… Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK), rendering available for research never-before-seen images of artists and researchers connected with visual culture, such as János Vető, László Rajk, László feLugossy, and Miklós Peternák. The portrait collection also contains high-quality previously unpublished images of many prominent artists and contributors of the contemporary Hungarian photography scene. In addition to a collection of …
Fond of Ilka Gedő
… Arts – Central European Art History Research Institute (KEMKI) Archive and Documentation Center (ADK) under the inventory number 21466-2021. The life of Ilka Gedő 1921 – Ilka Gedő was born on May 26, 1921, in Budapest. Her father, Simon Gedő, was a Hungarian-German teacher at the Jewish Grammar School in Budapest, and her mother, Erzsébet Weiszkopf, was a clerk. 1939 – In autumn, Ilka Gedő visited the free school of Tibor Gallé. 1940 – She participated in the …