‘painting’
Zsófia Beke
… her doctorate degree in 2005. Her dissertation focused on the spatial-theoretical synthesis of painting in the 1990s’ in Hungary. In 1995-1996, she was an art historian at the Hanság Museum of Mosonmagyaróvár, and between 1995 and 1998, she was a researcher at the Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From 1997 she was an art historian at the Municipal Art Museum of Győr, and from 1999 a curator at the Platán Gallery of the Polish Institute in Budapest. In …
György Szücs
… of Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE BTK) in 1984. From 1989, he worked as a museologist at the Painting Department of the Hungarian National Gallery, of which, in 1999, he became the secretary for research, and from 2010 to 2023, he served as deputy director for research. He is a researcher of 20 th -century fine art, with a special focus on the following topics/areas: the art scene of Nagybánya/Baia Mare, Romanian/Transylvanian art in general, cultural life during the interwar period, and …
Documents of János Tornyai (1869-1936)
… 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 floorboards of the painter’s last studio in Horányszky Street, Budapest. The painting estate was shared between the János Tornyai Museum in Hódmezővásárhely and the Hungarian National Gallery, while the documents were transferred to the latter’s Archives and …
László Beke Archives
… to intermedial art, i.e. to the interdisciplinary frontiers of photography and film theory, painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture, experimental film, and video. László Beke’s manuscripts and essays in the Archives cover the wide range of his interests in aesthetics, philosophy of art, psychology of art, sociology of art, visual anthropology, intermedia, ethnography, structuralism, linguistics, semantics, semiotics, and visual education. His methodological research has explored …
The Béla Gruber Bequest
… of painters that started out in the 1960s. During his short life he spent only a few years painting and yet he left behind more than a thousand works. Béla Gruber’s works can be found in numerous public collections and permanent exhibitions. He entrusted the care and bequest of his paintings to his sister, Ágota Strakovitsné Gruber, who carried out this task dutifully for decades. In addition to taking stock of artworks and written records, she also continuously collected references to …