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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 …

#correspondence #emigration #provenance

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 …

#archives #correspondence #neo-avant-gard #mail art

Document Bundle of the Artists' Circle of Rottenbiller Street

… with Lajos Szabó, Stefania Mándy and Béla Tábor. The autographic papers also include Júlia Vajda’s correspondence with her second husband, József Jakovits. After emigrating in 1965, his letters from New York give us an insight into the workings and rehearsals of the Squat Theater, which had been founded by members of the Dohány Street Apartment Theater. The third key artist in the Rottenbiller circle is Endre Bálint; the documents that can be regarded part of his estate—i.e. his correspondence …

#Lajos Vajda #Júlia Vajda #Endre Bálint #József Jakovits

Gyula Derkovits Fonds

… 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 preserved in the artist’s archives relate to the purchase of artworks (e.g. a handwritten letter from Ferenc Hatvany and a letter of thanks by Elek Petrovics for the Dózsa woodcut series). The documents also contain written remembrances of Gyula Derkovits’s childhood, as well as typed manuscripts of his poetry, which reveal a lesser known …

#interwar #social engagement

László Moholy-Nagy documents from Levente Nagy's collection

… that he could uncover relating to his uncle’s oeuvre and works. The collection includes correspondence between family members, original publications, and journals from the interwar decades, as well as catalogues of László Moholy-Nagy's solo exhibitions. Lucia Moholy-Nagy’s photographs of the performances of Madame Butterfly and the Tales of Hoffmann, presented at the Berlin Krolloper—for which László Moholy-Nagy designed the stage sets in the early 1930s—are prominent pieces of …

#reception history #Bauhaus #correspondence

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