‘painting’
The Béla Gruber Documents
… 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 estate of his paintings to his sister, Ágota Gruber Strakovitsné, who carried out this task dutifully for decades. In addition to taking stock of artworks and written records, she also continuously collected references to …
The Estate of Lajos Tihanyi
Lajos Tihanyi (1885–1938), one of the leading figures of modern Hungarian painting, died in Paris in 1938. His personal belongings, letters, and works of art that were left behind in his Paris studio were taken by his friends—Brassaï (Gyula Halász), the photographer, Jacques de la Frégonnière, and Ervin Preiss Marton—who divided Tihanyi’s entire estate among themselves and kept it in their studios and apartments for decades. Over the years, they always agreed that it …
Document Bundle of the Artists' Circle of Rottenbiller Street
… to family photographs and artwork reproductions, Gyula Kozák’s photographs of Endre Bálint’s paintings from Paris, are particularly significant from an art historical viewpoint. The personal documents are supplemented by catalogues, invitations, studies and press materials relating to the artists associated with the European School and Rottenbiller Street. /Judit Radák/
Gyula Derkovits Fonds
… the artist’s life and oeuvre. Among the manuscripts, some of Derkovits’s letters and a list of his paintings, drawings and etchings are of particular significance, as is the artist’s widow’s correspondence about him with others. Some of the letters preserved in the artist’s archives relate to the purchase of artworks (e.g. a handwritten letter from Ferenc Hatvany and a letter of thanks by Elek Petrovics for the Dózsa woodcut series). The documents also contain written remembrances of Gyula …
Documents of the National Picture Gallery (Országos Képtár)
… details about the life and times of the first Hungarian public museum, such as, for instance, what paintings were acquired and how; what rules the institution had; who the staff were; what was restored and how. Copying diaries from 1844 to 1869 are also regarded as important documents; they record which paintings were copied by who and when. As there was no academy of fine arts in Hungary in the nineteenth century, one of the basic tasks of the Hungarian National Museum was to provide …