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Collection of Artist Relics
… acquisition from the nineteenth century onwards. Prominent artists were surrounded by a veritable cult; elegant receptions and ceremonies were organised for them, and their funerals were held with great pomp, attracting huge crowds. Later, anniversary commemorations were regularly held to honour their memory. Thus it was only natural that, alongside artists’ works and documents, museums should also add artists’ belongings to their collections. Examples of venerated nineteenth century artists …
The Design Center Archives
… of Industrial Textile Art. Of these, the exhibition entitled Heritage: Object and Environmental Culture in Hungary 1945–1985, which was held at the Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest in 1985, is especially noteworthy. The Design Center also launched the Let’s Design Objects youth competition, which ran for several years and was accompanied by a television program as well. /Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári/
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
… supervision of the Ministry of Education, was one of the most important executive institutions of cultural policy before the regime change. Essentially functioning as a bureau of art censorship, the Lectorate had a definitive role in regulating the Hungarian art scene until 1989. From 1963 to 1990, the Lectorate had authority in virtually every field of fine and applied arts, autonomous art, and design. The Lectorate’s decades-long operations are recorded in a collection of complexly diverse …
György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
… available for research never-before-seen images of artists and researchers connected with visual culture, such as János Vető, László Rajk, László feLugossy, and Miklós Peternák. The portrait collection also contains high-quality previously unpublished images of many prominent artists and contributors of the contemporary Hungarian photography scene. In addition to a collection of sixty-six film rolls (over 700 frames), György Tóth also included sixty-two signed digital prints, which had …
Fond of Ilka Gedő
… Gallé. 1940 – She participated in the second exhibition of OMIKE (National Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association). 1939-42 – She worked as an apprentice of a family friend, the painter, Viktor Erdei. 1942 – She participated in the exhibition titled Freedom and the People organized by the Group of Socialist Painters, which was closed by the authorities a few days after its opening. 1942–43 – She visited the free school of István Örkényi Strasser. 1943 – She …