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ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Mihály Munkácsy), 2022
… (KEMKI ADK 4018/1941). In the background of the composition, we see an excerpt from the correspondence in which Munkácsy described the story of his life to Madame Chaplin (1841–1920) in 1889 (KEMKI ADK 20063/1978, p. 44). Albert, in essence, “explains” and annotates the single, “illustrated” page—a fragment of Munkácsy’s life—while isolating it from its original context of the correspondence, and adding artist-attributes as pictograms. He renders the object unique and amplifies its …
Documents of János Tornyai (1869-1936)
… eighty letters written by him (mainly to his second wife) and 540 letters addressed to him. The correspondence clearly reveals Tornyai’s network of contacts, containing letters written to him by a number of prominent Hungarian artists (e.g. Jenő Barcsay, Mihály Munkácsy, József Rippl-Rónai, and Mihály Zichy), by some of his contemporaries from Hódmezővásárhely (Béla Endre, Mária Kovács, János Pásztor, and Gyula Rudnay), as well as by prominent art critics and writers (e.g. Ödön Gerő, Károly …
László Beke Archives
The László Beke Archive contains the correspondence of art historian, art writer, and theoretician László Beke (1944–2022) with Hungarian and international (especially Central and Eastern European) (neo-)avantgarde artists over several decades, as well as his documents, art projects, manuscripts, photographs, slides and printed publications. Of these, the so-called Imagination/Idea project conceived by Beke deserves special …
From the Archive of the Lectorate for Fine and Applied Arts: Documents on Public Art
… art: minutes of meetings, copies of plans and designs, expert opinions, jury evaluations, official correspondence, contracts, and related official papers. The documents collected on each work are arranged into individual files by author and title. The archive of nearly 15,000 items is complemented by a closely related collection of photographs (mostly consisting of black and white enlargements) documenting the creation of each artwork. Beyond providing insight into the circumstances of the …
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 …
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