‘exhibitions’
From the Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts: Minutes of Exhibition Authorisation Meetings
… From 1963 onwards, the Lectorate had a primarily censorial role in the system of authorising exhibitions and the works showcased at those exhibitions. When it came to the most prominent exhibition spaces (Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest, Ernst Museum, Csók Gallery, Mednyánszky Hall, and Adolf Fényes Hall, etc.), and rural exhibition spaces of national significance, it was the Fine Arts Department of the Ministry of Education that approved the creation of exhibitions. After approving a …
The Estate of Lajos Tihanyi
… only the basic data of the given painting or graphic piece, but also the name of its owner and the exhibitions where the given work had been showcased, thereby making it possible to trace the precise history and provenance of each piece. /Judit Galácz/
György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
… Tóth also included sixty-two signed digital prints, which had previously been featured in his exhibitions or in publications. The pieces of the series document György Tóth network of professional contacts in the contemporary art scene of the 1980s. It also offers insight into an important period of his then ongoing oeuvre, when such props were already beginning to make their appearance from his dreamlike shots of the nineties as studio backgrounds, flashes, compositional elements and …
Gyula Derkovits Fonds
… in addition to some personal photographs, reproductions of works and photo documentation of exhibitions (such as the interior of the artist’s solo exhibition in Amsterdam in 1961) also comprise part of the fonds. In addition to prizes, awards and certificates, the Derkovits estate also includes some relics. Next to the tools he used for creating his graphic art, we also find two boxes preserving his paint bottles and his collection of shells used as paint mixing bowls. /Judit …
László Moholy-Nagy documents from Levente Nagy's collection
… and journals from the interwar decades, as well as catalogues of László Moholy-Nagy's solo exhibitions. Lucia Moholy-Nagy’s photographs of the performances of Madame Butterfly and the Tales of Hoffmann, presented at the Berlin Krolloper—for which László Moholy-Nagy designed the stage sets in the early 1930s—are prominent pieces of the collection. Levente Nagy also considered it important for the archive to contain literature on the artist’s friends, colleagues, and the places where …