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rented premises to its permanent home on Üllői Road. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Katalin Blaskóné Majkó, former director of the Library of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, for her generous, wide-ranging help with the initial investigations. 14 Museum of Applied Arts, Archive NLT 47.671- 47.672. Cited in: Ács 1996, p. 7 and Ács 1999, pp. 261-284. In the opinion of Ferenc Vadas (Vadas 1998, p. 58, note 106), the illustrations are not depictions of the museum’s basement exhibition spaces, about which “we still do not have pictorial sources”. However, the Archive of the Museum of Applied Arts has kept the printed paper version of the pictures, and the description in the volume of the Photographic Inventory of 1948 defines them, together with a few similar prints - see FLT 4925, FLT 4926, FLT 4927, FLT 4928 - as: “The Indian exhibition in the Museum of Applied Arts in 1885”. I am indebted to Dr Hilda Horváth for drawing my attention to the paper prints. A report on the exhibition was also written by Uhl, Sándor: ‘Az Iparművészeti Múzeum indiai tárlata.’ [The Indian exhibition of the Museum of Applied Arts.] In: Művészi Ipar 1, 1885-1886,1. pp. 16-24, IL pp. 54- 60), including drawn illustrations that show the same rooms. According to the text, the objects were put on public display in “the exhibition room of the institution”. (For more about the Indian exhibition, see: Kelényi, Béla: ’Az indiai művészi ipar recepciója az Országos Magyar Iparművészeti Múzeumban.’ [The reception of the Indian applied arts industry in the National Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts.] In: Művészettörténeti Értesítő 56, (2007), pp. 259-265.) 15 Reconstruction by Ferenc Vadas, see: Vadas 1998, pp. 57-58. Gábor, Eszter: ‘A Műcsarnok épülete.’ [The building of the Exhibition Hall.] In: Műcsarnok, Budapest, 1996, pp. 5-40, p. 6.) names the “high souterrain (where the Puppet Theatre is today) and a part of the ground floor” as the premises of the Museum of Applied Arts. In 2010 the same author mentions the lower ground floor. See: Gábor, Eszter: Az Andrássy út körül. [The vicinity around Andrássy Avenue.] Budapest, 2010, p. 36. 16 Its original location has not yet been conclusively identified. Based on its dimensions and proportions, the right wing of the stairs leading down from the atrium of the Exhibition Hall seems likely. 17 Radisics 1885, IX. 18 Károly Pulszky was made curator of the National Picture Gallery (director from 1884) and Albert Schickedanz became a teacher at the School of Applied Arts. See: Ács 1996, p. 7. 19 Ács 1996, p. 8. 20 Radisics 1885. 21 Modern address: 1064 Budapest, Andrássy út 67. - Vörösmarty utca 35. Today the building is the headquarters of the Ferenc Liszt Memorial Museum and Research Centre, part of the Liszt Academy in Budapest. 22 Radisics 1885, IX; Ács 1996, p. 9; Ács 1999, p. 264. 23 Radisics 1885, on page IX he is referred to as a teacher at the School of Applied Arts, Nuremberg. 24 For the announcement (dated 4 May 1883) of his appointment as museum curator, see: Museum of Applied Arts, Archive 1883/44. He occupied the position only at the end of July. Sec: Museum of Applied Arts, Archive, 1883/51. 25 For the announcement concerning the conversion of the office of the Museum of Applied Arts into a drawing and reading room, see: Museum of Applied Arts, Archive, 1883/5. Significant alterations, whose nature is yet to be determined, were necessary at the Museum of Applied Arts as early as 1882. See: Committee report 1882. In: Az OMKTközleményei 1883. évre [Bulletin of the National Hungarian Association of Fine Arts, 1883], p. 35. Cited in: Vadas 1998, p. 67. 26 Radisics 1885, IX-X; Ács 1996, p. 9. 27 On top of this, Jenő Radisics got married in April 1883. See: Museum of Applied Arts, Archive 1883/35 and 39. 28 Museum of Applied Arts, Archive, 1883/215. 29 Museum of Applied Arts, Archive 1883/233, 1883/240. 112
