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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/
Zsuzsa G. Fábri's Artist Portrait Collection
… by Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó under the title 40 Faces – 40 Essays. The artist portrait archive, which comprised part of Zsuzsa G. Fábri’s estate, was donated to the Photographic 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 …
The Béla Gruber Documents
… art. In July 2017, she donated her collection of written records and art reviews to the Art Archive collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery. The Gruber bequest includes primary written sources (personal documents, letters, and journal entries) and secondary written sources such as the transcripts of exhibition opening speeches, newspaper articles and academic papers. Photographs and audiovisual material (which has since been digitized) also form part of the …