Imre Jakabffy (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 1. (Budapest, 1973)

TIBOR HORVÁTH 1910—1972

Since 1948 his literary activity turned to the art of Asia, mostly to Japanese and Chinese art. He wrote "The art of Asia in the F. Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts" in 1954; he redacted the Jubilee Exhibition Catalogue and the Handbook of the same museum and the Yearbook of the Museum of Applied Arts and of the F. Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts, to which he contributed numerous articles and reports. A complete list of his writings will soon be published in the Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. At the Eötvös Lóránt University of Budapest he lectured on various themes relating to the art and archaeology of Asia. Since 1958 he became in one person also the deputy director general of the Museum of Applied Arts and so he contributed much to the work of this museum as well. Between 1964 and 1970 he was the Chief Secretary of the Hungarian Archaeological and Art Historical Society. He was a member of the Art Historical Committee of the Hungarian UNESCO Commission. By his early death the two museums have lost their devoted and competent leader and the all-round connoisseur of the art of Asia. His memory will be kept by the directory and by the curators of the two museums and by the numerous excellent new acquisitions of the Hopp Museum collected under his guidance.