‘research’
Zsuzsa G. Fábri's Artist Portrait Collection
… estate, was donated to the Photographic Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK) at the beginning of 2024. This outstanding collection of negatives and vintage enlargements is richly supplemented with additional information. The material also includes numerous never-before-seen photographs of well-known Hungarian artists (Miklós Borsos, Amerigo Tot, Károly Gink, Károly Koffán, János Kass, Endre Bálint, Ilona Keserű, etc.). In addition …
The Béla Gruber Documents
… a coherent picture of Béla Gruber’s visual world and, in addition, can serve as the basis for research into the artistic legacy of Cezanne in the 1950s and 1960s. /Judit Galácz/
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
… is accessible in its entirety 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 …
From the Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts: Minutes of Exhibition Authorisation Meetings
… Applied Arts—which comprises part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts–Central European Research Institute for Art History (ADK)—contains the minutes of meetings that were held from the 1960s to the 1980s for the purpose of evaluating exhibition proposals awaiting official authorisation. From 1963 onwards, the Lectorate had a primarily censorial role in the system of authorising exhibitions and the works showcased at those exhibitions. When it came to the most prominent exhibition …
From the Archive of the Lectorate for Fine and Applied Arts: Documents on Public Art
… 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/