‘collection’

… (13:00–15:00) Gitta Ho: At the Center of Interest: Competing Access to Jewish Collections and their Transport from occupied France to Germany 1940-1944 Sina Knopf: Art Transfer and Networks. Alternative Methods of Transferring Art from Occupied France Marieke Maathuis: Women Navigating the Art Market 1940–1945 Lucie Němečková: Josef Cibulka: the Friend of the Fine Arts in Prague during World War II Coffee break (15:00–15:30) …

… renowned art historian who passed away in 2022. It was the great honour of the KEMKI ADK collection to receive, as per the family’s decision, his archives in 2023. László Beke earned his degree in Art History-Hungarian Language and Literature in 1968, and subsequently became a staff member of the Art History Documentation Centre. In the early seventies, in parallel with his institutional work, he became a leading figure of the Hungarian and regional progressive art movement. It …

… renowned art historian László Beke, who passed away in 2022, was transferred to the KEMKI ADK collection in 2023 thanks to the family's honourable decision, and thus became the main pillar of the Beke's life work processing carried out by the Research Department of KEMKI under the umbrella of the Resonances project. Once arranged and processed, the archive will be accessible to external researchers. In service of László Beke’s oeuvre and the visibility of his archive, a collection of …

… significant series by a prominent Hungarian photographer has been added to the Photographic Collection of the SZM-KEMKI ADK. The roll film negatives of György Tóth’s Portraits 1985-1991, which the artist gifted to the Collection, will soon be available for research. These photos by the Rudolf Balogh Prize winning photographer – known mainly for his studies of the human body in motion facilitated by long exposures and special flash techniques – still reflect a documentarist aesthetic, …

… Director 10:40-11:10 am           Ferenc Tóth : The Development of the Modern Foreign Collection Under the Directorship of Elek Petrovics 11:10-11:40 am          Péter Molnos : Elek Petrovics – The Collector of Collectors 11:40 am-12:10 pm    István Németh : Marcell Nemes: Patron of the Petrovics Era 12:10-1:30 pm            Lunch break   SECTION II, section leader: Ferenc Gosztonyi 1:30-2:00 pm Katalin Keserü : “Pure and True Art” – Elek Petrovics …