Golden Age of Hungarian Painting (1836-1936)

21.10.2016-22.01.2017 Golden Age of Hungarian Painting (1836-1936)

The exhibition will present approximately 90 paintings coming mainly from two galleries: an internationally acclaimed collection of Gábor Kovács – one of the most important private art collections in Hungary, and from the Hungarian National Gallery.

The exhibition will focus on the period of one hundred years, beginning from the origins of Hungarian national painting, through the artistic turmoil of broadly defined fin de siècle, up to the interwar period, characterized by the coexistence of diverse trends. Selected paintings testify to how the local flavours and themes revived under European influences, giving rise to diversity so characteristic of the art of Central Europe.

The display will be accompanied by a catalogue in Polish and English, which will allow the reader to become familiar with the history of Hungarian painting in the 19th century, as well as its dynamic development in the subsequent century, when for several decades it kept pace with the latest trends, thus laying the foundations for the modern approach to art in Hungary.

Exhibition curators: Péter Fertőszögi, György Szücs
Curator on the part of NMK: Dr. Magdalena Ludera

MNK The Main Building

al. 3 Maja 1

Monday: closed
Tuesday - Sunday: 10.00-18.00

Mihály Munkácsy (1844–1900), Landscape with Alley and Building
circa 1882, oil on wood, Hungarian National Gallery

Károly Markó the elder (1791–1860), Women at the Well (Snake-killers)
1836, oil on canvas
Gábor Kovács Art Collection

Károly Sterio (1821–1862), Rest by the Shadoof in the Puszta
1855, oil on canvas, Gábor Kovács Art Collection

László Mednyánszky (1852–1919), Mountain Lake
the 1st half of the 1890s, oil on canvas, Hungarian National Gallery

József Rippl-Rónai (1861–1927), Veiled Woman – In the Garden (Woman in White in the Garden)
1909, oil on cardboard, Gábor Kovács Art Collection

Károly Ferenczy (1862–1917), Archers
1911, oil on canvas, Hungarian National Gallery

János Vaszary (1867–1939), Promenade I
ca 1934, oil on canvas, Gábor Kovács Art Collection

Jenő Medveczky (1902–1969), Self-Portrait
1929, oil on canvas, Hungarian National Gallery

Gyula Derkovits (1894–1934), The Grape-eater (Double portrait)
1929, oil on canvas, Hungarian National Gallery

József Egry (1883–1951), Badacsony Hill
ca 1930, watercolour and pastell on paper, Hungarian National Gallery

Vilmos Aba-Novák (1894–1941), Carousel
1931, oil and tempera on wood, Hungarian National Gallery

Béla Kádár (1877–1956), Concert at Home
ca 1935, tempera on paper, Gábor Kovács Art Collection