‘history’
Gyula Derkovits Fonds
… 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 importance. These written sources are supplemented by photographic documentation; in addition to some personal …
László Moholy-Nagy documents from Levente Nagy's collection
… and Documentation Center of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History. Throughout his life, Levente Nagy consistently collected all the letters, books, exhibition invitations, catalogues, and photographs that he could uncover relating to his uncle’s oeuvre and works. The collection includes correspondence between family members, original publications, and journals from the interwar decades, as well as catalogues of László Moholy-Nagy's solo exhibitions. …
Contemporary Art in KEMKI
… the artists’ earlier experiments and installations (which also bring into play traditions from the history of institutions, collections and cultural education, and which can be found in the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery), as well as other precursors of the neo-avantgarde (including the enamel works of Imre Bak, Sándor Pinczehelyi or Ferenc Lantos, also found in the Museum’s collection), the displayed works may inspire the creation of further pieces and exhibitions. …
Mission and Goals
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 …
Daguerreotypes in the Collection of KEMKI ADK
Daguerreotype Series on Istvány Ferenczy's Works for the Matthias Rex Monument The series of daguerreotypes of the works of the sculptor István Ferenczy, made by Adolf Gola and preserved in the collection of the SZM - KEMKI ADK, recorded the effort attempt to erect the firsta Hungarian public monument for a Central-European national leader. The images therefore document an important phase in …