Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 28. (Budapest, 2012)
Ildikó PANDUR: Links between the Oeuvres of Ödön Lechner and Gyula Jungfer
6. Interior of the Historical Picture Gallery in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, third floor, room in the south-eastern wing, photo from c. 1935 torical Picture Gallery was transferred to the Museum of Fine Arts 3 3 the furnishing of whose department of prints and drawings had been designed by Ede Wigand (Toroezkai). 3 4 The specially designed wrought iron display tables by Lechner - as some of their designations also imply - were meant for representative display and not storage. All things considered, it is likely that from 1907 the elaborate iron Lechner showcases originally made for the prints of the National Picture Gallery exhibited in the Academy building not independently of the preparations for the millennium were used later at the same location to show a selection of the prints of the Historical Picture Gallery. The exhibition opened in 1907 was closed for a long time with the outbreak of World War I. 3 5 When in 1923 Zoltán Felvinczi Takács re-arranged the material and put it on display again, 3 6 the showcases were still the same, for they can be seen lined up against the walls in the archive photos 3 7 of Miklós Horthy's visit to the Picture Gallery. They were still needed in large numbers for, similarly to the exhibition in 1907, the overrepresentation of graphic works was conspicuous again "used by the curator especially to illustrate historical events." 3 8 These showcases were surely used in that building until 1939 - the exhibition on the third floor of the Academy was closed this year -, as it is proved by contemporary photos from about 1935. 39 (figs. 6-7) 98
