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Judit Radák
Chief Museologist (Photo Archive) Judit Radák graduated from the Art History Program of Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE) in 2003, and from the Portuguese Language and Literature Program of the same university in 2018. She defended her doctoral dissertation on Lajos Vajda’s Pepita Notebooks in 2013. During her 20 years as an educator, she taught at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, the Metropolitan …
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 …
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
… in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK). The main portion of the Lectorate’s 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 …
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 …
The Estate of Lajos Vajda
… to the ADK archives of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History. These were the documents that Stefánia Mándy used for writing the Vajda monograph published in 1983. Among the written sources, special mention should be given to the letters and postcards written to Julia Vajda between 1936 and 1941, most of which were published by Jakovits and Kozák in 1996. Also of great interest are the three notebooks used by the artist in the 1920s and …
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