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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 …
Cold War Modernisms
… along new research directions, based primarily on the records of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts in the KEMKI ADK. The deeper processing of the Design Center, namely the Industrial Design Information Center, added to the collection in 2023, has begun, while sub themes such as the relation between abstraction and public space, textile art and public space are also coming into focus.
Contemporary Art in KEMKI
Over the past year and a half, a project was carried out with the collaboration of contemporary artists, resulting in the showcasing of artworks in the corridors and various spaces of KEMKI. The tapestries and enamel art created by Ádám Albert, Ferenc Gróf and Zsófia Gyenes are site-specific pieces based on research conducted in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, the Hungarian National Gallery, and the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Centre (ADK). These works provide the …
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