‘portrait’
Zsuzsa G. Fábri's Artist Portrait Collection
… 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 never actually materialised, Zsuzsa Fábri’s decision to compile the material matured into a consistent documentary endeavour: with unique subtlety and maximum technical precision, she sought to create a photographic portrait gallery of Hungarian art and …
György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
… component of his oeuvre. Before the 1990s, Tóth was still engaged in documentary photography. Portraits 1985–1991 is an important series from this period in several respects. He donated the negatives of the collection to the Photographic Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK), rendering available for research never-before-seen images of artists and researchers connected with visual culture, such as János Vető, László Rajk, László …
ALBERT Ádám: My Appropriations (Lili Ország), 2022
… layer of enlarged, architectonic forms (also originating from the printed circuit board). The portrait-oriented enamel panel on the right is supplemented by the labyrinth motif—this time, as an openwork metal grid applied onto the edge of the panel—which plays such an inescapable role in Lili Ország’s art.
Daguerreotypes in the Collection of KEMKI ADK
… were taken outdoors in the yard of the artist's house in Buda, and one of them shows a full portrait of the sculptor. István Ferenczy (1792–1856) was the most important Hungarian sculptor in the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1840, he was commissioned to design a monument of King Matthias. He made several plans and studies for this work, which had many supporters, but ultimately—and primarily for financial reasons—the monument failed to materialize. After the battles of …
Postcards of Judit Reigl
… great joy, Betty converted to Catholicism. It was also during this period, that she painted a portrait of Trappist monk and geographer Charles de Foucauld. The collection reveal a myriad of details that might be useful for researchers of Judit Reigl’s oeuvre, and for researchers of Hungarian artists in Paris. /Réka Pálinkás/