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Fond of Ilka Gedő
… the number of juvenilia drawings is around 1700. The number of drawings preserved in the public collections is 422. The number of drawings produced between 1944 and 1949 is 740. Ilka Gedő organized her drawings into folders, and she titled each folder herself. Each drawing can be clearly identified by the folder number and serial number within the folder that is assigned to the given drawing. The number of paintings is 152. This number was modified, since three completely destroyed …
Contemporary Art in KEMKI
… 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 opportunity for institutional self-reflection through the use of records and materials from the past, explore possible points of connection, and seek a contemporary approach. They reflect on the documents—be it in the form of texts or …
Mission and Goals
… include the further expansion, the processing, the digitalisation and the dissemination of the collection holdings – predominantly manuscripts, documents and archive photos – and the implementation of relevant research projects and publications concentrating on the collection’s units. The ADK takes care of the Hungarian Art Archive, which was established in 1920 by the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, to become subsequently further developed as the Hungarian National Gallery's Archive …