‘exhibition’
The Design Center Archives
… The Design Center, on the other hand, helped the development and promotion of design by organising exhibitions and disseminating information. In addition, the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts was responsible for the activities of certification, evaluation and tendering in the field of design (often also playing a censorship role). The Chamber of Commerce asked Mihály Pohárnok, who was one of the inventors and leading figures behind the complex environmental design experiment of the Kitchen …
The Béla Gruber Documents
… a thousand works. Béla Gruber’s works can be found in numerous public collections and permanent exhibitions. He entrusted the care and estate of his paintings to his sister, Ágota Gruber Strakovitsné, who carried out this task dutifully for decades. In addition to taking stock of artworks and written records, she also continuously collected references to her brother’s art. In July 2017, she donated her collection of written records and art reviews to the Art Archive collection of the Museum …
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
… (e.g. the Derkovits Scholarship and the Kállai Scholarship) and the minutes for meetings where exhibition proposals were evaluated for approval. After the closure of the Lectorate, and the subsequent years-long search for a new home, the entire material finally found its way to the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Data Repository of the Hungarian National Gallery in 2014. From there, it was moved to its current location in 2021. In an effort to render the full material available for …
The Estate of Lajos Tihanyi
… 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) contains, among other things, Tihanyi’s correspondence with his artist and writer friends—a valuable and significant resource—as well as the …
The Endre Tót Archives
… (building professional knowledge, direct or indirect involvement), reviews, essays, texts of exhibition opening speeches (building professional knowledge, direct or indirect involvement), personal objects, objects and tools (e.g. seal collection) related to written correspondence, material documents relating to professional life (e.g. awards, prizes). This is followed by documents of mail correspondence with artist peers from the early 1970s to the late 1970s, supplemented …