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László Moholy-Nagy documents from Levente Nagy's collection
In 2015 and within the framework of the Art Treasure Depository Program, Magyar Nemzeti Bank(the central bank of Hungary) purchased from Levente Nagy, the artist’s nephew, a unique documentary collection pertaining to László Moholy-Nagy’s oeuvre. Following a mutual agreement with the bank and the owner, the entire collection was first transferred to the Documentation Department of the Museum …
Documents of the National Picture Gallery (Országos Képtár)
In 1977, some important documents of the National Picture Gallery were inventoried in the Data Repository of the Hungarian National Gallery's as “core material” (material that had been there for a long time). They reveal interesting details about the life and times of the first Hungarian public museum, such as, for instance, what paintings were acquired and how; what rules the institution had; …
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. …
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 …
László Beke Archive and Research
… art historian László Beke, who passed away in 2022, was entrusted to the collection of the KEMKI ADK in 2023 thanks to the family's decision, which is an honour for us. The archive is now the central source of the KEMKI Research Department’s work in processing Beke’s oeuvre, under the aegis of the Resonances project. The archive will be opened to external researchers after organisation and processing. In the second half of 2025, JRP|Editions will publish a volume compiled by the …