“Budapest Will Have Its Own Museum of Photography” In conversation with museum director Péter Baki author: Karácsony Ágnes Ágnes Karácsony Although Hungary is “the country of André Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Brassaї, Robert Capa and Martin Munkacsi”, the tome on Hungarian photographic art is yet to be written. Besides the lack of historical research, there is no solidarity in the profession either, says photographer and photographic historian Péter Baki, the director of the Hungarian […]
“I was quite active at the time, completely sincerely and utterly unnecessarily” In conversation with historian Péter Deme author: BERÉNYI MARIANNA–GRÉCZI EMŐKE Péter Deme (b. 1950) graduated in history and English from ELTE in 1973 and was conferred the title dr. univ. in 1978. He started working in the Party History Institute in 1973 and from 1987 was appointed deputy director-general of the Hungarian Labour Movement Museum (later: Museum of Contemporary History). He was the head of […]
A Treasury of Unexploited Possibilities Interview with Zsófia Ruttkay, head of TechLab at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design author: Varga Lujza The work of Zsófia Ruttkay and the TechLab she heads at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) is well known on both the Hungarian and international museum scene. By connecting various fields of science they are developing new methods of information transmission. Their activity includes audiovisualisation, city games, the digital museum and cultural […]
The Garden as a Listed Monument A conversation with Éva Szikra about Researching Historic Gardens author: Karácsony Ágnes Dr. Éva Szikra is a leading landscape architect, an expert on monument protection and garden history and a winner of the Imre Ormos and Gyula Forster Prizes. She gained her degree as a horticultural engineer at the Faculty of Landscape and Horticultural Architecture of the University of Horticulture in 1973. She was a leading landscape […]
On an Overgrown Path Interview with landscape architect and garden historian Gábor Alföldy about Hungarian historic gardens author: Szikra Renáta Gábor Alföldy spent his school holidays at the writers’ retreats in Szigliget and Zsennye and was captivated by the world of mansions and gardens. At school he focused on biology and music composition. Since the natural sciences and the arts equally attracted him, he applied to study at the Landscape Architecture Faculty of the University […]
“A Garden is Always and Everywhere about the Relationship between Society and Environment” author: Jankó Judit In its Museum Keeper section MúzeumCafe has tried to shed light in an unusual interview with a couple on how many professions and concepts meet and sometimes clash in relation to the protection and reconstruction of listed buildings, and within that of historic gardens. Although architect Tamás Mezős and landscape architect Kinga M. Szilágyi do […]
A Gift for Light – Local History in Photographs author: Basics Beatrix “Photography is not an Art. Neither is painting nor sculpture, literature nor music. They are only different media for the individual to express his aesthetic feelings; the tools he uses in his creative art.” Alfred Stieglitz’s provocative statement in his article Is Photography a Failure? was published in New York’s The Sun on 14 March […]
An English Painter who was Australian The Hungarian Connections of Rupert C. W. Bunny (1864-1947) author: Mánfai Melinda “The painter travels here and spends the summer in my house, because he likes Hungary, her music and what he has heard of her pustas and their sweet tunes.” This was the title of an article published in 1890 in Magyar Bazár, edited by Janka Wohl, about an ‘English’ painter on his approaching visit to […]
Nebbien’s City Park author: Jámbor Imre The City Park in Pest (originally called in German the Stadtwäldchen) was the first public park in the world created by a city on its own land, from its own resources, for the free use of citizens, and where the designer was chosen by means of an open competition. The winner was Heinrich Nebbien, whose […]
Our Heritage? The Metal Environment of Box-shaped Houses author: Gagyi József In the village close to Târgu Mureș where the photographs for this article were taken, 48% of the basic material for gates is exclusively iron. Gates have also been made from wood, stone and bricks, but it is iron, i.e. iron tubing, bent reinforced iron and iron plates that dominate. Iron defines the village image, which […]
