Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 8. (Budapest, 1965)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Report on the activities of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1963

TIBOR HORVÁTH REPORT ON" THE ACTIVITIES OF THE FERENC HOPP MUSEUM OF EASTERN ASIATIC ARTS IN 1963 It was the completion of the revision of art objects that had been going on for several years which dominated our work during the first six months. The revision cards, the register and inventory books were then passed on to the record section of the Museum of Industrial Art for final registration. In the second part of the year our main task was the evacuation of our museum in Népköztársaság-útja 103, and its transfer to the China Museum (Gorkij fasor 12). This was necessary because of ceiling repairs and a complete renovation of the former, so that work could start by the middle of winter. The offices and the library could be accomodated in the exhibition rooms of the China Museum. This solution, however, forced the temporary closing of our India, Old and New China exhibitions for the duration of the reconstruction period. In the midst of these works we did not want to stay out of the countrywide Museum month program, held in October. In the Museum of Industrial Art, the author gave two lectures : ,,Recent Trends of the Industrial Art in Eastern Asia" (Oct. 18) and „Aneient and Medieval Art of India" (Oct. 20). A third lecture was held in the Kiskunfélegyháza Museum on the „Painting of China" (Oct. 19) by Péter Polonyi. In addition to this, on the invitation of the János Damjanich Museum in Szolnok, we put up a temporary exhibition „Eastern Asiatic bronzes and woodcuts". At the end of September we began to select the material for this exhibition and also to prepare the explanatory notes. This was done by Edit Tóth, Lydia Rásonyi, László Ferenczy and Péter Polony

i. The installation and arrangement was carried out by Edit Tóth and Lydia Rásonyi, The exhibited 234 pieces represented every country of Eastern Asia. Many of our new acquisitions had been first shown here. As to the others, we could display, for the first time, a great many of our InnerMongolian woodblock prints (Figs. 1—2.). (The exhibition was opened on October 19, 1963 by Tibor Horváth.) Preceding this one, the Vietnamese Exhibition of New Acquisitions which was opened on September 1st, 1962 was replaced at the end of January by The Arts of Nepal and Ceylon. The latter had been shown once before, but on this occasion, it was rearranged by Edit Tóth. For the first time in Hungary, during the Musen m month, on Oct. 8, we were able to show The Art of Japanese Flower Arrangement (Ikebana). Kimie Kido and Tazuko Maeda, teachers of the Sogetsu-school in Tokyo,