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different from the Hungarian. In this region there are several Oriental collections of importance - there are two in both Vienna and Prague -; and since last year we have lost of our uniqueness in being the only such museum with a building of our own; with Japanese assistance, a new building has been erected in Cracow to house the Jasziensky Collection. 17. Cf. E. Baktay: ,,Recent Acquisitions of the Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in Budapest". In: Acta Orientalia Hungarica Tom I. Fasc. 1. pp. 191-212.: E. Baktay: „Indián Stone Sculpture in the Budapest Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts". In: Acta Orientalia Hungarica Tom III: Fasc. 1-2. pp. 135-165. 18. To mention just anybody from the long list of the contributors would be somewhat arbitrary. The name of Géza Szabó, art dealer in Peking, could be cited as an example, and so could that of Aurél Gaszner, engineer (representative of the Siemens firm in Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century) or that of Vojtech Chytil from Bohemia, the first European professor of the Academy of Painters in Peking. All donated valuable pieces to the museum. Zoltán Takács on his journey to East Asia in 1936-37 also collected for the museum (especially small bronze artefacts; these were not very much appreciated then). 19. His correspondence is kept in the documentation department of the museum. Of the great Orientalists of those times. Sir Mark Aurel Stein (1862-1943). an experienced scholar and older friend, gave encouragement and help to his younger colleague to follow with undiminished energy on his researches into the history of Oriental art even under the difficult conditions then prevailing in Hungary, to follow his vocation to keep up and develop the museum, worded in impeccable, beautiful Hungarian. Cf. Hopp Museum. Department of Documentation. Nros. A 1977-A 2003. 20. An overview is given by Felvinczi Takács Zoltán: „A Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum". In: Távol-Kelet 1936. I. year. Vol. I. 11-32. English version: Zoltán de Takács: „The Francis Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts". In: Far East. The Quarterly Review of the Hungarian Nippon Society 1936 II. (Nrs. 4-6.) 112-132. 21. Cf. Zoltán Takács: „Hopp Ferenc Memorial Exhibition 1933. The Art of Greater Asia". Budapest. The underlying idea behind this exhibition was based on the then highy appreciated motif research. The material of the museum was supplemented by archaeological material lent from other museums and private collectors. Oriental art was brought into immediate connection with Hungarian prehistory through the migration period as well as with the material culture of Central Asia. 22. Cf. Zsuzsanna Renner: „Ervin Baktay. Curator and Art Historian". In: Ars Decorativa 11 (1991), pp. 7-35. 23. This qualitative development in the museum's history took place under conditions which were far from being simple. The history of the museum is inseparable from the general condition of Hungarian culture: in the years between 1949 and 1956, the name of its ..bourgeois" founder was dropped from its name. 24. Single outstanding specimens of these collections were published only. There exists a systematic survey of the Zboray Collection only: Kelényi Béla Renner Zsuzsanna: „Vajang. Jávai báb- és árnyjáték. Wayang. Puppet and Shadow Play from Jawa". Kiállítási katalógus. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest 1991. 25. Cf. Pál Miklós: „A New Acquisition in the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts." In: Ars Decorativa 9 (1989). pp. 133-151. 26. The first two volumes (1955, 1956) bear the title: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Evkönyvei (Annals of the Museum of Applied Arts), the volumes III—XIII. (19571977): Az Iparművészeti Múzeum és a Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum Evkönyve / Annals of the Museum of Applied Arts and of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts. Since 1981 it has been published in its present form: Ars Decorativa / Iparművészet. Az Iparművészeti Múzeum és a Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum Evkönyve / Annals of the Museum of Applied Arts and of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts. Members of the museum's staff, whose names cannot be listed here, have published some 80 papers in these volumes. 27. „A Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum Emlékkönyve 1919-1969 / Handbook of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts 1919-1969." Horváth Tibor (ed.) Népművelési Propaganda Iroda 1970. - There exists an earlier book also describing the museum's material, also by Tibor Horváth: „The Ari of Asia in the Francis Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in Budapest." Publishing House of the Fine Arts Foundation, Budapest 1954. (Hungarian version: „Ázsia művészete a Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum gyűjteményeiben". Képzőművészeti Alap. Budapest 1954.) - For the papers read at the conference cf. Annals, 1970. 28. Cf. Felvinczi Takács Zoltán: „Buddha útján a Távol-Keleten". I—

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J (On Buddha's Trail in the Far East). 29. This collection is the youngest one in the museum; its existence is due to the fact that with the exception of the objets d'art connected with the era of the Turkish occupation of Hungary and the Oriental carpets that are inseparable from Hungarian material culture, this segment of world culture had not been claimed by any of the museums in Hungary. 30. Pál Miklós: „Kína művészete. Ch inesc Arts". Kiállítási katalógus. (Catalogue to the exhibition) Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Ráth György Múzeuma, Bp. 1987. (1991). Miklós Pál: „Kína művészete (Állandó kiállítás a Ráth György Múzeumban)" (Chinese Aris. Permanent Exhibition in the György Ráth Museum). In: Keletkutatás (Oriental Studies), 1988 spring, 46-62.