Nagy Ildikó szerk.: A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria Évkönyve 1992-1996 (MNG Budapest, 1998)
ACCESSION LIST OF THE COLLECTIONS IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GALLERY 1991-1996
We purchased for the collection of drawings 3 works by the secessionist master Rezső Mihály and a volume with different works of his from 1907 (Inv.nos: F.93. 25-27). We got two colourful landscape compositions by the avantgárdé painter and graphic artist, János Maitis Teutsch bom in Brassov through exchanging (F. 93.32-33). The series purchesed from the Undi family - Mariska Undi: Miraculous Stag, and Dancing woman I-IV, from the 1920s, supplies a long want (F. 93.76-80, F. 93.82-84). For the collection of prints, we purchased sheets by less known Nagybánya artists. Outstanding among them is Janka Olejnik's Mystikum, a copperplate from the 1920s (G. 93.20). We obtained through exchange Károly Lajos Libay's lithograph, View of Salzburg, 1849 (G. 93.47), from the Gilhofer antique shop in Vienna. The collection of posters received 15 works from the estate of Jenő Haranghy, a one-time teacher of graphic design at the Academy of Applied Arts, as a gift (XY 93.17-31). 1994 Total of new acquisitions: 745 works holidays, an album from 1940 (G. 94.13/1-14). The collection of posters received posters and poster designs from the estate of Antal Fery, which aptly illustrate the high standards of poster competitions in tourist trade between the two world wars. Eg. Hungarian Art Show in Stockholm, 1939 (XY. 94.70). The stock of posters was also enriched by typical works of the generation of the 1980s who took to computer design, e.g. Dezső Kiss (ARC studio) theatre posters (XY. 94.5). 1995 Increment: a total of 356 works Drawings 130 of which purchase 115 gift 14 transfer 1 Prints 31 gift 30 exchange 1 Posters 195 donation 194 exchange 1 Drawings 292 Prints 253 Posters 200 of which purchase 20 gift 11 transfer 10 bequest 251 purchase 17 gift 59 exchange 33 transfer 144 purchase 20 gift 180 The collection of drawings was extended, among other things, by works of Hugó Mund and Gizella Dömötör as the gift of their daughter (Mund, F.94.44-81, Dömötör, F.94.82-93). A regular annual purchase from the Bedő collection began, to fill gaps concerning the interwar material: János Kmetty's two watercolours from Nagybánya and József Csáky s female nudes from Paris were acquired, together with Anna Czilliciïs Self-portrait and István Farkas's View in Toledo (F. 94.34-39). The collection of prints got via exchange the Portrait of Barbara Esterházy, a lithograph by the biedermeier painter Gábor Melegh of a short life (G. 94.24). We purchased Imre Amos's Jewish The collection could purchase a comprehensive selection of the 100-year-old master, Jenő Tarjáni Simkovics (F. 95.3-13). A separate collection of his etchings was donated to the collection by the master (G. 95.5-19). Purchases from the Bedő collection went on: one work by Dezső Korniss, Béla Kádár, István Réti, Margit Gráber and Dávid Jándi each (F. 95.14-18). 27 sheets from a sketchbook of 1849 by Károly Klette and other landscape drawings by him were also purchased (F. 95.19-51). 6 drawings (studies of landscape and animals) by Gusztáv Kelety from the 1870s were received as gift from the estate preserved by the family. The collection of prints was extended by the latesecessionis, symbolic Sarabande (1932) of Kálmán Kubinyi, a graphic artist who worked in Munich (G.95.1). Lithographed veduti by unknown 19th century masters were received from the Klette-Keleti estate, including a View of Pozsony, around 1840 (G. 95.29). The collection of posters got via purchase from the artist's family film and commercial posters by József Finta (XY 95.35). HVG (the periodical Weekly World Economy) donated to the National Gallery the complete stock of the poster campaign of the editorial office (XY 95.115-148).
