… 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 Institute for Art History and it is now officially part of the ADK Collection. The Endre Tót Archives have preserved in a time capsule-like fashion the documents that served as the foundations for—and starting point of—the artist’s later career on the other side of the Iron Curtain. …
… also of special significance. Beyond the photographs, manuscripts, and contemporary sources, the collection also includes documents relating to the reception history of Vajda’s art, such as exhibition invitations, exhibition reviews, and literature on Vajda’s art, which has been growing steadily since the 1970s. /Judit Radák/
… is an important series from this period in several respects. He donated the negatives of the collection to the Photographic Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK), rendering available for research never-before-seen images of artists and researchers connected with visual culture, such as János Vető, László Rajk, László feLugossy, and Miklós Peternák. The portrait collection also contains high-quality previously unpublished images …
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 …
In 2021 forty-seven postcards were gifted to our collection. They were written between spring 1950 and February 1963 by Judit Reigl and addressed to her parents and—after her mother’s death—to her stepfather. Although the postcards often contain references to long letters she had written, as far as we know, only these short messages have survived from this early period of Judit Reigl’s life. Reigl gives a detailed account of her trials and …