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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 …
The Béla Gruber Documents
… such as the transcripts of exhibition opening speeches, newspaper articles and academic papers. Photographs and audiovisual material (which has since been digitized) also form part of the collection. The material compiled by Béla Gruber’s sister encompasses the artist’s entire lifetime. Furthermore, it also includes the posthumous reviews of his art: documentation and press coverage of every exhibition where the artist’s works were showcased up to the 2010s. The collected sources offer a …
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
… Archives consists of documentation of public works of art (together with the associated photographic material). The rest of the material is comprised of other documents, including a larger collection of official papers—which were transferred to the Lectorate in 1976—related to the organizational operations and professional activities of the Council of Applied Arts. Furthermore, the archives also contain documents related to the history of the Lectorate, as well as project …
From the Archive of the Lectorate for Fine and Applied Arts: Documents on Public Art
… and title. The archive of nearly 15,000 items is complemented by a closely related collection of photographs (mostly consisting of black and white enlargements) documenting the creation of each artwork. Beyond providing insight into the circumstances of the creation of these works of public art, research onthis source material of irreplaceable value also opens up new interpretations of György Aczél’s three T’s (“banned, tolerated, supported”). /Dániel Lőrinczi/
The Estate of Lajos Tihanyi
… 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 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 …