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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 The portrait collection also contains high-quality previously unpublished images of many prominent artists and contributors of the contemporary Hungarian photography scene.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 …
Contemporary Art in KEMKI
… (which also bring into play traditions from the history of institutions, collections and cultural education, and which can be found in the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery), as well as other precursors of the neo-avantgarde (including the enamel works of Imre Bak, Sándor Pinczehelyi or Ferenc Lantos, also found in the Museum’s collection), the displayed works may inspire the creation of further pieces and exhibitions. Much appreciation is owed to Eszter …