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Ferenc Gosztonyi
… the Collection of International Art after 1800. Since 2022 he has been 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
The collection of the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Centre (ADK) predominantly contains documents and photographs. Relics related to Hungarian artists make up a special part of the collection. Collecting objects linked to famous people 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 …
Documents of János Tornyai (1869-1936)
… and the Hungarian National Gallery, while the documents were transferred to the latter’s Archives and Documentation Collection. The collection of documents left behind by János Tornyai offers a complex picture of his work as both a painter and a public figure in artistic circles: it includes nearly ninety-five handwritten journals, along with nearly eighty letters written by him (mainly to his second wife) and 540 letters addressed to him. The correspondence clearly reveals …
"Our House" Collection
… the continuous addition of new shows, as well as documents surfacing retrospectively, yet to be archived. We are also in the process of collecting documentation relating to the former exhibitions of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest—although, for the time being, this part of our collection remains less coherent and systematised. /Eszter Békefi/
Sára Bennő
… the same university. Before starting her graduate studies, she completed her internship at the Archive and Documentation Centre of the Central European Research Institute for Art History – Museum of Fine Arts (KEMKI ADK). Since 2023, she has been on staff at the KEMKI ADK, where she has been working on preparing József Rippl-Rónai’s correspondence for publication.