‘correspondence’
The Estate of Lajos Tihanyi
… the Art Archive of the Hungarian National Gallery) contains, among other things, Tihanyi’s correspondence with his artist and writer friends—a valuable and significant resource—as well as the artist’s notebooks revealing his network of professional contacts. From the point of view of art history research, the photographs of Tihanyi’s works constitute a particularly important group of artefacts. On the backs of many of these photos, Tihanyi wrote not only the basic data of the given …
The Endre Tót Archives
… spaces of his private daily life and his work in the studio. In connection to this, written correspondence served as the specific, personally controlled form of communication, with the post office serving as the official/institutional protocol around it. This material—which could be classified as both documents and artefacts (mostly written in English, with a significant part in German and Hungarian, and a minor part in French)—makes up around eighty percent of the archive. It reflects …
The Correspondence of József Rippl-Rónai
Primary source publications The publication of the correspondence of József Rippl-Rónai (1861-1927) is a long-standing debt of Hungarian art history. This publication of great academic importance, long awaited by those interested in modern Hungarian art, is prepared by KEMKI ADK in collaboration with renowned Rippl-Rónai experts. Our aim is to compile an exhaustive collection and publish every letter ever written by and to Rippl-Rónai. Our …
Réka Pálinkás
… at the HNG, and is currently one of the editors of the forthcoming volume of József Rippl-Rónai’s correspondence.
Postcards of Judit Reigl
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. …