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Collection of Artist Relics
… of the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Centre (ADK) predominantly contains documents and photographs. Relics related to Hungarian artists make up a special part of the collection. Collecting objects linked to famous people and national heroes was an important element of Hungarian museum acquisition from the nineteenth century onwards. Prominent artists were surrounded by a veritable cult; elegant receptions and ceremonies were organised for them, and their funerals were held with …
Documents of János Tornyai (1869-1936)
… and catalogues, as well as medals and honorary certificates. Furthermore, a nearly 400-piece photograph collection comprises an especially valuable part of the material: it includes a large number of prototype photos, based on which the painter created his large-scale, multi-figure paintings. A significant portion of these photos were taken by his friend József Plohn (1869–1944), a prominent figure of Hungarian ethnographic photography. The journals and correspondences discovered in …
"Our House" Collection
… opening speeches, lists of exhibited artworks, small printed materials and pamphlets, as well as photos of interiors. This material is in part supplemented by audio and video recordings (of openings and interviews with artists), official logs, and exhibition visitors’ books. At the time of KEMKI ADK’s establishment and its relocation to Szabolcs Street, a number of related documents also turned up and are presently being catalogued. The exhibition documentation of “Our House” is currently …
László Beke Archives
… artists over several decades, as well as his documents, art projects, manuscripts, photographs, slides and printed publications. Of these, the so-called Imagination/Idea project conceived by Beke deserves special mention, along with many aspects of Hungarian conceptual art, mail art, fluxus, land art, happenings, environments, and action art. The László Beke Archive make a valuable contribution towards understanding and processing such initiatives of the Hungarian …
Zsuzsa G. Fábri's Artist Portrait Collection
… School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1952, where she studied under such prominent Hungarian photographers as József Pécsi, Klára Langer, Mariann Reismann, and Jenő Sevcsik. Although she had originally intended to become a reporter, she eventually realised that it did not fit her disposition. As a full-time mother, she decided to compile a series of portraits of her former teachers for a jubilee volume celebrating the bicentenary of the founding of her alma mater. Although the volume …