‘museum history’
The Estate of Lajos Tihanyi
… they always agreed that it should eventually end up in a place worthy of its significance, a museum in Hungary. As their first choice fell on the Hungarian National Gallery, they contacted the museum as well as the Hungarian authorities in the 1960s. The negotiations for transferring the ownership of the Tihanyi Estate and arranging its transport to Budapest proved to be a lengthy process. The artworks, together with the artist’s personal documents, letters and photographs, were finally …
The Endre Tót Archives
… facility of the Contemporary Collection of the Hungarian National 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, …
The Estate of Lajos Vajda
… to a close circle of friends and professionals, were eventually transferred to the Lajos Vajda Museum in Szentendre (founded in 1986). After Julia Vajda’s passing, her daughter, Vera Jakovits, and her daughter’s husband, Gyula Kozák, became the custodians of the documents (which had been kept at home), who subsequently transferred the estate to the ADK archives of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History. These were the documents that Stefánia Mándy …
György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
… several respects. He donated the negatives of the collection to the 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 The portrait collection also contains high-quality previously unpublished images of many prominent artists and contributors of the …
László Moholy-Nagy documents from Levente Nagy's collection
… and the owner, the entire collection was first transferred to the Documentation Department of the Museum of Fine Arts and then to the Archive 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 …