‘art archives’
Dóra Halasi
Archivist, Art Historian She received her MA in Hungarian and Art History from the Faculty of Humanities at Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Piliscsaba. Her thesis examined the connection between dance and visual art in the 70s, which has been marginalized in the history of art. Since 2005 she has been an archivist and art historian at the Artpool Art Research Center, specialising in audio and video …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Dezső Korniss), 2022
… on hollow structural section overall dimensions: 47 x 73.5 cm The motifs highlighted by the artist are from the mosaic (1967) covering the bottom of the Esperanto Fountain located in front of the Rác Thermal Baths, in the Tabán area of the First District. The black and white photographs showing Dezső Korniss’s (1908–1984) work (KEMKI ADK Inv. No.: 25001/2014/Korniss Dezső/1-3) belong to the public sculpture register, which comprises part of the 500 metres of documents that originally …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Mihály Munkácsy), 2022
… dimensions: 94 x 50 cm The estate of Mihály MUNKÁCSY (1844–1900) constitutes the oldest part—and perhaps one of the most valuable portions—of the KEMKI ADK collection. In addition to the documents, it also contains his relics: his furniture, the plaster cast of his right hand, his palette, his mourning ribbon, and the silver laurel wreath given to Mihály Munkácsy in 1882 by his fellow artists along with the National Hungarian Society of Fine Arts (KEMKI ADK Inv. No. 4003/1941)—which, …
Documents of János Tornyai (1869-1936)
… was an outstanding painter of the Hungarian Great Plains, an organizer of the Hódmezővásárhely artists’ group, and the establisher of the ethnographic and fine arts collection of the local municipal museum named after him. Following Tornyai’s death in 1936, a significant portion of the paintings and documents he left behind disappeared.They were only found much later, after the passing of his widow in 1983, under the floorboards of the painter’s last studio in Horányszky Street, …
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
The Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts, established in 1963 under the supervision of the Ministry of Education, was one of the most important executive institutions of cultural policy before the regime change. Essentially functioning as a bureau of art censorship, the Lectorate had a definitive role in regulating the Hungarian art scene until 1989. From 1963 to 1990, the Lectorate had authority in virtually every field of fine …