… 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 Archive 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 …
… 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 …
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 …
… 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/
… 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 …