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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 …
The Estate of Lajos Tihanyi
… 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 history research, the photographs of Tihanyi’s works constitute a particularly important group of artefacts. On the …
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 great …
Gyula Derkovits Fonds
… widow’s correspondence about him with others. Some of the letters preserved in the artist’s archives relate to the purchase of artworks (e.g. a handwritten letter from Ferenc Hatvany and a letter of thanks by Elek Petrovics for the Dózsa woodcut series). The documents also contain written remembrances of Gyula Derkovits’s childhood, as well as typed manuscripts of his poetry, which reveal a lesser known side of the artist. Among the printed material, one finds catalogues, invitations, …