Veszprémi Nóra - Jávor Anna - Advisory - Szücs György szerk.: A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria Évkönyve 2005-2007. 25/10 (MNG Budapest 2008)
STUDIES - Ágnes FELFÖLDI: Béla Fónagy and the Belvedere Salon (1921-24)
^TM/'/Zd? SïèrJiS/âftZn frn^erf sTnseÁcZ srr-L&vf 4^ en. Aerify &4 j£&&âi HTH/ f7F/ /67/ f/^ 2Vïl- 4/) M 1. Gyula Derkovits's letter to Béla Fónagy, Vienna, 1925. HNG Archive, inv. no.: 3484/1937 financial status helped change his housing conditions, too: he moved to 1/c Luther utca in District VIII and become a neighbour of his railway chief engineer relative, Samu Fónagy. 15 Displaying its own material, the Museum of Society participated at the Dresden Exhibition of Hygiene in 1911. The success it attained there prompted the idea to arrange a travelling exhibition that would go round the whole of Hungary. The exhibition was first put on as part of the programme of the Congress of Hungarian Physicians and Natural Scientists in Veszprém between August 25 and September 1, 1912. 16 After the Veszprém debut, the travelling exhibition moved to Kaposvár, where the repeatedly enlarged material was on show until November 3, 1912. The local Somogyi Hírlap also reported on the numbers visiting the display and the lectures held in connection with it. 17 The next station was Székesfehérvár, where the exhibition was opened by Bishop Dr. Ottokár Prohászka, and could be visited by the public between December 21, 1912 and January 3, 1913. 18 In Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napoca), the organizers flexibly adapted to local requirements, and registered 42,160 visitors during the 43 days it was open between May 1 and June 12, 1913. A brochure was also published for the occasion. 19 In Győr, the exhibition was on between August 14 and September 10, 1913. The local Győri Híradó and the rich material in the Győr archive provide interesting insights into the particularities of the show, the correspondence between the leadership of the town, the museum and the supervising ministry. 20 Before the outbreak of the First World War, the last station of the exhibition was Mosonmagyaróvár, which, according to the museum programme, was open to the public between February 1 and 15, 1914. Due to the war, the travelling exhibition was suspended. However, the museum did put up a major display at the Houses of Parliament. The chief organizer of the 1915 Military and Public Health Exhibition was Dr. György Lukács, who rearranged the material so that the military health aspect would dominate. 21 According to the lengthy and impressive catalogue, works of art (paintings, drawings and sculptures) were displayed in several rooms of the exhibition. Showing mostly historical works, the exhibition sought to present the heroism and war triumphs of the Hungarian nation to boost morale among the public. Opened on April 11, the exhibition received a lively press coverage as it was visited by members of the royal family, high-ranking army officers and even military surgeons from Germany. Aladár Bálint reported of the exhibition in the literary magazine Nyugat striking a humanistic and anti-war tone. 22 Béla Fónagy had an important role in bringing about the exhibition and arranging several of its parts. In the historical section, works by, among others, Mór Than,
