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Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
… decades-long operations are recorded in a collection of complexly diverse and irreplaceable documents, which is accessible in its entirety in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK). The main portion of the Lectorate’s Archives consists of documentation of public works of art (together with the associated photographic material). The rest of the material is comprised of other documents, including a larger collection of …
From the Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts: Minutes of Exhibition Authorisation Meetings
… the second half of the 1980s, and was officially abolished with the change of regime in 1989. The documents of the jury process serve as a unique resource for studying Hungarian art policy in the second half of the twentieth century. /Dániel Lőrinczi/
The Estate of Lajos Tihanyi
… to Budapest proved to be a lengthy process. The artworks, together with the artist’s personal documents, letters and photographs, were finally delivered to Hungary in 1970. In 1973, the Hungarian National Gallery organised a large-scale exhibition of Lajos Tihanyi’s life and oeuvre, which also included these objects from Paris. The ADK collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (formerly the Art Archive of the Hungarian National Gallery) …
The Endre Tót Archives
The Endre Tót Archives preserve art and historical documents of outstanding significance and value. When Endre Tót defected to West Berlin, his belongings were transferred to his brother. Later and at the artist’s request, the material was placed in the storage facility of the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery. It was gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History and it is now …
Document Bundle of the Artists' Circle of Rottenbiller Street
… of Lajos Vajda’s estate, we also have Vera Jakovits and Gyula Kozák to thank for preserving the documents of the artists’ circle of Rottenbiller Street, which are of great importance from an art historical and sociological perspective. The bundle of documents are mainly related to Vera Jakovits’ mother, Júlia Vajda (1913–1982), whose estate is also invaluable because it contains indirect sources about Lajos Vajda’s life and oeuvre, including some of his biographies, various versions of …