“Art is life itself!” Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch memorial exhibition at the Gödöllő Town Museum MúzeumCafé 35. author: Emese Révész, art historian “His artistic legacy is huge and if ever there is to be a retrospective of his work what will cause admiration apart from his volume of output is his unrivalled graphic art.” Thus prophesied Artúr Elek in his obituary of Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch (1863–1920). Yet an exhibition showing the richness of his work has not since […]
“A Sense of Place” museum educational project Cross-border bilingual cooperation MúzeumCafé 35. author: Sándor Horváth, ethnographer Besides its three permanent exhibitions, which opened in the early 1980s, Szentgotthárd’s Pável Ágoston Museum operating under the Vas County Museums Directorate also has an area for small temporary exhibitions. For years we have missed having a communal area where museum educational sessions could be held. We have had good contacts with colleagues working in […]
Dachau, in shade and light MúzeumCafé 35. author: Jenő Murádin, art historian Can culture heal horrible wounds, or simply cover them with something beautiful, entrusting everything to the passing of time? This is the dilemma which faced the Dachau artists’ colony in the post-war years, and which at the same time cast a shadow over what for a century had been a peaceful, picturesque region of Bavaria. […]
India, Amrita Sher-Gil and international art MúzeumCafé 35. author: Katalin Keserü, art historian Be the change you wish to see in the world! This inscription on the Gandhi Memorial in Ahmedabad could be regarded as the artistic credo of the painter Amrita Sher-Gil, who was born in Budapest one hundred years ago, in 1913, the child of a Sikh father and Mária Antónia Gottesmann. UNESCO has named 2013 […]
What criteria should be used to determine budget subsidies for museums, galleries and collections? MúzeumCafé 35. János Halász, minister of state for culture at the ministry of human resources, emphasises that for the first time the budgetary law of 2013 set apart resources of a normative nature for the operation of museums maintained by local authorities. During preparation of the 2013 budget the State Secretariat for Culture was able to ensure […]
What kind of being is a museum? What identity does it have? Graphic images and visual identities of museums in Hungary and abroad MúzeumCafé 35. author: Dániel Kovács, art historian, until May 2013 editor-in-chief of hg.hu The Kassák Museum’s new corporate identity received the Red Dot Award in 2012. Red Dot, which was founded by Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in 1955 and is awarded on the basis of applications, is one of the most prominent recognitions in the international world of design. It is not the first award that designer Imre […]
“The door was always open” A conversation with Günther Uecker in Budapest MúzeumCafé 34. author: Dávid Fehér, art historian In December a large exhibition of works by the internationally renowned artist Günther Uecker opened in the Museum of Fine Arts. In 1977 Uecker participated in the group display Artistic Trends in West Germany after 1945 in the same museum, and he later had solo exhibitions at the Hungarian National Gallery and in Pécs and […]
Contemporary canon and paradigm shift Art historians Dávid Fehér and Márton Orosz on the new permanent exhibition of contemporary art in the Museum of Fine Arts MúzeumCafé 34. author: Éva Marton On the day when Cézanne and the Past opened at the Fine Arts Museum another exhibition was also launched – a selection of 20th-century and contemporary works from the museum’s Department of Art post-1800, as well as from private collections and from artists, which can be seen in the Majovszky Rooms. Two young art historians […]
“It was a point of prestige to build museums” Ottó Trogmayer, archaeologist, protohistoric archaeologist, former director of Szeged’s Móra Ferenc Museum MúzeumCafé 34. author: Emőke Gréczi Ottó Trogmayer could be regarded as someone from Szeged, although ‘only’ forty years of his career is connected to the town. That was how long he worked in the Móra Ferenc Museum, where he started out as an archaeologist and retired as the museum’s director. In addition, for more than three decades he taught at […]
MúzeumCafé Award 2012 Edit Sasvári, art historian, director of the Lajos Kassák Memorial Museum MúzeumCafé 34. author: Emőke Gréczi Ladies and Gentlemen, For the third time I am standing before an audience gathered for the presentation of an award to someone who was thought by a jury of professionals to most deserve recognition on the basis of work performed in Hungarian museology in the previous year. The award in question bears the name of […]