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Documents of János Tornyai (1869-1936)
… named after him. Following Tornyai’s death in 1936, a significant portion of the paintings and documents he left behind disappeared.They were only found much later, after the passing of his widow in 1983, under the floorboards of the painter’s last studio in Horányszky Street, Budapest. The painting estate was shared between the János Tornyai Museum in Hódmezővásárhely and the Hungarian National Gallery, while the documents were transferred to the latter’s Archives and Documentation …
The Béla Gruber Documents
… Arts – Hungarian National Gallery. The Gruber bequest includes primary written sources (personal documents, letters, and journal entries) and secondary written sources such as the transcripts of exhibition opening speeches, newspaper articles and academic papers. Photographs and audiovisual material (which has since been digitized) also form part of the collection. The material compiled by Béla Gruber’s sister encompasses the artist’s entire lifetime. Furthermore, it also includes the …
From the Archive of the Lectorate for Fine and Applied Arts: Documents on Public Art
… from the Lectorate to the municipal bodies. The Lectorate’s material on public art contains documents relating to the creation of individual pieces of 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 …
Documents of the National Picture Gallery (Országos Képtár)
In 1977, some important documents of the National Picture Gallery were inventoried in the Data Repository of the Hungarian National Gallery's as “core material” (material that had been there for a long time). They reveal interesting details about the life and times of the first Hungarian public museum, such as, for instance, what paintings were acquired and how; what rules the institution had; who the staff were; what …
László Moholy-Nagy documents from Levente Nagy's collection
In 2015 and within the framework of the Art Treasure Depository Program, Magyar Nemzeti Bank(the central bank of Hungary) purchased from Levente Nagy, the artist’s nephew, a unique documentary collection pertaining to László Moholy-Nagy’s oeuvre. Following a mutual agreement with the bank and the owner, the entire collection was first transferred to the Documentation Department of the Museum …