Őriné Nagy Cecília (szerk.): A népművészet a 19-20. század fordulójának művészetében és a gödöllői művésztelepen (Gödöllői Múzeumi Füzetek 8. Gödöllői Városi Múzeum, 2006)
Folk Art as Reflected in the Art at the Turn of the 19,h and 20th Centuries and in the Art Colony of Gödöllő. Abstracts in English / Angol nyelvű összefoglalók
Abstracts in English 211 The first one of this type, an album containing 100 copper engraving sheets coloured by hand, has been published in 1804. The metal plates of it were prepared by Vinzenz Georg Kininger (1767-1851), a popular painter of portraits and peasant life genre pictures in Vienna. Still in the year when the original was published, its version came out in England with the English text of Bertrand de Moleville. The albums and picture series presenting the wear of the peoples living in Hungary were published one after the other from the start until the end of the 19 t h century. The tradition of the albums and series prepared in the first decades of the century, which represented the ethnic groups primarily from ethnographic point of view and from that of the history of their wear, continued also in the second half of the century. An engineer-officer with fairly good drawing skills, József Heinbucher Bikessy used as model the album of Kininger when he prepared his series published three times one after the other (1816, 1818, 1820). This work, with its special fields of topic, became a decisive model itself for later works with similar subject published during the 19 t h century. In a year's time after the last version of Bikessy's album was printed, the public could get to know the series of Franz Jaschke. Franz Jaschke studied in the Academy ofVienna, then, he travelled a lot in Hungary, in Galicia, in Bukovina and in northern Italy. He has recorded his impressions in graphics and in paintings. His drawings and watercolours became later the models for the copper engravings of the album of the national wear. The first similar Hungarian publication came out in 1846, the series created by Imre Vahot entitled "The Hungarian Land and its Peoples" (drawn by Imre Medve, lithographed by Alajos Röhn and Vince Grimm). The peasant life genre pictures, wear illustrations and townscapes from this album became popular also as individual pieces. Lastly, a particular publication should retain our attention, the pictures of the volume published in London in 1909 under the title "Hungary" by Adrian and Marianne Stokes. The painting and watercolour illustrations of the book presenting Hungary are landscapes and pictures recording the inhabitants of different regions in their characteristic wear. An important part of the paintings was exposed in London in the Leicester Galleries in 1907, then in 1910, in Budapest, in the Nemzeti Szalon (National Saloon). Their next presentation in Budapest had to wait nearly one hundred years. In the frame of the millennium celebrations of founding the Hungarian state, the British Council exhibited, in 1996, 35 of these pictures - mostly illustrations prepared with distemper technique - in the building of the British Embassy in Harmincad Street, Budapest for a short while. Even s small catalogue booklet has been issued for this occasion. The volume at issue holds a particular place among the different representations of the Hungarian wear culture both because of the quality of the illustrations and on account of the explanatory text accompanying them. Following the tradition of the albums and applying also the characteristic features of the guidebooks, its illustrations alone form a rich source of the wear and customs of the peoples of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, as they were so to say in the last moment before the disintegration of the Monarchy.
