Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 19. (Budapest, 2000)

New acquisitions 1999

the Association of Hungarian Artists and Designers and the Society of Hungarian Ceramic Artists. In June 1999 the exhibition was occasioned by the publication of the volume "Hungarian Ceramic Art 1945 1998". The Museum had earlier organized (in collaboration of Gabriella Balla and Éva Csenkey) a notable exhibition of the ceramic art of the twentieth century from its own collection in 1995. (Unfortunately the funds were not enough for a catalogue at that time either.) This latest exhibition in 1999, although covered a shorter period, only half a century, but it was considerably richer in its number of artists and exhibits. It presented works by every ceramic artist actively working after 1945, thus illustrating the volume that contained the professional biographies of the artists. Beside the Museum of Applied Arts the Janus Pannonius Museum (Pécs) with the materials of their National Ceramics Biennial Exhibitions and the Siklós Symposia, the public collection of the International Ceramics Studio (Kecskemét), the factories Gránit (Budapest), Herend, Hollóháza, Zsolnay (Pécs), Alföldi Porcelán (Hódmezővásárhely), the collection of the DeForma Foundation, important private collectors, descendants of artists all contributed to the arrangements of the exhibition. The selection was undertaken by Éva Csenkey, Katalin Keszthelyi, László Kiss Horváth, Ibolya Laczkó, Zsuzsa Pannonhalmi, and also by Ágnes Bakonyvári, Csaba Benkő, Mária Orosz, János Probstner, József Sárkány. Finally on request of the Society of Hungarian Ceramic Artists the organizers accepted the works offered by all the artists whose works until that time had not been selected into any public collection. The exhibition presenting 1600 pieces