… 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 …
… a lesser known side of the artist. Among the printed material, one finds catalogues, invitations, exhibition posters, lists of works and exhibition plans documenting Derkovits’s career path. With regards to the history of how Gyula Derkovits’s art was received through the decades, the essays and studies (by Lajos Kassák, Zoltán Farkas, Éva Körner, Lajos Vayer, Zoltán Székely) published during his lifetime and after his death, as well as the press releases found in the material, are of notable …
… such intense, exciting and open debates as the 1980s. The anthology Kiállítások és kritikák [Exhibitions and Criticism], edited by Júliusz Huth and Kristóf Nagy and published by the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), offers a comprehensive exploration of this era. Featuring over fifty essays, reflections and reviews originally published during the 1980s, alongside a new, comprehensive study on the art criticism of the decade, the volume delves into the art …
The Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) was established in 2021 as an affiliate of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Our mission is to strengthen Hungary's academic discourse and represent Hungarian art and art history at a high standard globally by initiating and implementing locally focused, regional and international research projects and collaborations connected to art-historical issues. The research conducted …
… was created after the Hungarian National Gallery was moved to the Buda Castle in 1975. “Our House Exhibitions” constitutes a key part of this material; it contains the professional documentation of all exhibitions arranged at the Hungarian National Gallery. In the process of expanding the collection, materials were also included not only for exhibitions that were held in its own building, but also at other venues in Budapest and other parts of Hungary, or abroad. The collection of various …