… she participated in compiling and publishing the digital critical edition of Zsigmond Móricz’s correspondence. From 2018 – first with the support of the National Cultural Fund (NKA), then of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA) – she studied the oeuvres of members of the Association of Hungarian Tapestry Artists (MKE), conducting numerous in-depth interviews with tapestry artists. Additionally, she also authored two monographs on tapestry art ( Eszter Kneisz – Networks , 2021 Edit …
… 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 …
… has been on staff at the KEMKI ADK, where she has been working on preparing József Rippl-Rónai’s correspondence for publication.
The László Beke Archives 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 …
… 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 …