‘archives’
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, …
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/
Contemporary Art in KEMKI
… it in the form of texts or objects—preserved in the relevant collection units (e.g., KEMKI ADK’s archives and lectorate materials) by reworking motifs and archive material. In the tapestries displayed along the corridor of the lectorate and in the research room (Ferenc Gróf and Zsófia Gyenes), the logos of art institutions that had defined the pre-regime-change era (Gallery Company, Young Artists’ Studio, the Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists) have been enlarged and …
Zsuzsa G. Fábri's Artist Portrait Collection
Zsuzsa G. Fábri graduated from the Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1952, where she studied under such prominent Hungarian photographers as József Pécsi, Klára Langer, Mariann Reismann, and Jenő Sevcsik. Although she had originally intended to become a reporter, she eventually realised that it did not fit her disposition. As a full-time mother, she decided to compile a series of …