‘archive’
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, …
László Moholy-Nagy documents from Levente Nagy's collection
… was first transferred to the Documentation Department of the Museum of Fine Arts and then to the Archive and Documentation Center of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History. Throughout his life, Levente Nagy consistently collected all the letters, books, exhibition invitations, catalogues, and photographs that he could uncover relating to his uncle’s oeuvre and works. The collection includes correspondence between family members, original publications, …
Documents of the National Picture Gallery (Országos Képtár)
… original documents of the Hungarian National Museum were destroyed in a fire that broke out in the archives in 1956. With the help of this recently uncovered material, clarification can be provided about numerous details from the first fifty years of the National Museum. /Eszter Békefi/