‘hungarian Plain’
Károly Tóth
… of Department of the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK). His research interests include Hungarian and European fine art of the 19th and 20th centuries, Hungarian art history writing and art criticism, and the history of painting in the Great Hungarian Plain. He is a regular contributor to arts journals, has edited several volumes of studies and catalogues, and has worked on the methodology of academic publishing. He has many years of experience as teacher in higher education, as an …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Mihály Munkácsy), 2022
… laurel wreath given to Mihály Munkácsy in 1882 by his fellow artists along with the National Hungarian Society of Fine Arts (KEMKI ADK Inv. No. 4003/1941)—which, in the present work, appears as a silhouette. The collection also includes the artist’s paintbrushes (KEMKI ADK 4018/1941). In the background of the composition, we see an excerpt from the correspondence in which Munkácsy described the story of his life to Madame Chaplin (1841–1920) in 1889 (KEMKI ADK 20063/1978, p. 44). Albert, …
Documents of János Tornyai (1869-1936)
János Tornyai (1869–1936) was an outstanding painter of the Hungarian Great Plains, an organizer of the Hódmezővásárhely artists’ group, and the establisher of the ethnographic and fine arts collection of the local municipal museum named after him. Following Tornyai’s death in 1936, a significant portion of the paintings and documents he left behind disappeared.They were only found much later, after the passing of his widow in 1983, under the …