‘history’
From the Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts: Minutes of Exhibition Authorisation Meetings
… part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts–Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK)—contains the minutes of meetings that were held from the 1960s to the 1980s for the purpose of evaluating exhibition proposals awaiting official authorisation. 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 …
The Estate of Lajos Tihanyi
… 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 artist’s notebooks revealing his network of professional contacts. From the point of view of art history research, the photographs of Tihanyi’s works constitute a particularly important …
The Endre Tót Archives
… Gallery. It was gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History and it is now officially part of the ADK Collection. The Endre Tót Archives have preserved in a time capsule-like fashion the documents that served as the foundations for—and starting point of—the artist’s later career on the other side of the Iron Curtain. In the 1960s and 1970s and in a manner typical of the period, Endre Tót’s artistic undertakings—like those of many of his …
The Estate of Lajos Vajda
… to the ADK archives of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History. These were the documents that Stefánia Mándy used for writing the Vajda monograph published in 1983. Among the written sources, special mention should be given to the letters and postcards written to Julia Vajda between 1936 and 1941, most of which were published by Jakovits and Kozák in 1996. Also of great interest are the three notebooks used by the artist in the 1920s and …
György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
… Photographic Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK), rendering available for research never-before-seen images of artists and researchers connected with visual culture, such as János Vető, László Rajk, László feLugossy, and Miklós Peternák. The portrait collection also contains high-quality previously unpublished images of many prominent artists and contributors of the contemporary Hungarian photography scene. In addition to a …