‘art archives’
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 …
The Endre Tót Archives
The Endre Tót Archives preserve art and historical documents of outstanding significance and value. When Endre Tót defected to West Berlin, his belongings were transferred to his brother. Later and at the artist’s request, the material was placed in the storage facility of the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery. It was gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research …
The Estate of Lajos Vajda
… only in Hungary, but in Europe as well. It was thanks to her perseverance that the majority of his artworks, which were known only to a close circle of friends and professionals, were eventually transferred to the Lajos Vajda Museum in Szentendre (founded in 1986). After Julia Vajda’s passing, her daughter, Vera Jakovits, and her daughter’s husband, Gyula Kozák, became the custodians of the documents (which had been kept at home), who subsequently transferred the estate to the ADK archives of …
Gyula Derkovits Fonds
The collection of documents relating to the art of Gyula Derkovits (1894-1934) is rather diverse: manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, personal papers and relics provide an insight into the artist’s life and oeuvre. Among the manuscripts, some of Derkovits’s letters and a list of his paintings, drawings and etchings are of particular significance, as is the artist’s widow’s correspondence about him with others. Some of the letters …
Documents of the National Picture Gallery (Országos Képtár)
… they record which paintings were copied by who and when. As there was no academy of fine arts in Hungary in the nineteenth century, one of the basic tasks of the Hungarian National Museum was to provide artists with opportunities to copy the paintings in the Picture Gallery as a means of practicing and developing their skills. This was useful not only for the artists, but also for the museum, as the end result became a market commodity and also, in a way, an advertisement for the …