Nagy Ildikó szerk.: A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria Évkönyve 1989-1991 (MNG Budapest, 1993)

ACCESSION LIST OF THE COLLECTIONS IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GALLERY 1989-1990

Hungarian National Gallery as a present from a German private property. We acquired at the autumn BAV auction the Mother and child (Inv.No. 89.41 T) painted also by Marastoni (1851) which represents - according to the inscription on reverse side-the painter's pretty young wife Johana Bianki. János Lajos Hora (died in 1868) painted the Portrait of Mrs. Beniczky née Anna Gregor, a woman from Besztercebánya in 1859 (Inv.No. 89.2 T). The work was purchased after the offer of the owner in Budapest. The Riverside landscape painted on wood panel by József Molnár in 1875 was also purchased (Inv.No. 89.22 T). The Self-portrait with hat (Inv.No. 90.16 T) by József Knopp (1846) is worth to mention. The atmospherical effect of Rembrandt's slightly frolicsome self-portrait is recognizable on it. Sándor Liezen-Mayer's small sketch, the Farewell of the child St. Elisabeth before her travelling to Thüringia (Inv.No. 90.8 T) has been recorded for ages. The painting of Knopp arrived at the painting collection by exchange and the work of Liezen-Mayer by purchase as well as a late painting of Károly Telepy, the Island on the Danube (1902, Inv.No. 90.9 T), which had been formerly in Béla Szatmáry's property in Kolozsvár (Cluj, Romania). We could acquire several high-quality works from the first half of the 20th century. After the purchase of Károly Patkó''

s painting the Bathers which was previously under protection (Inv.No. 90.1 T) and Dávid Jándfs moderately expressive Self-portrait (1927, Inv.No. 90.18 T), the circle was unexpectedly completed with the Self-portrait with pipe by Vilmos Aba Novak in 1926 (Inv. No. 90.19 T) and the Detail of Zugliget (Inv. No. 90.20 T) painted also at about this time as well as his picture entitled Circus (Inv.No. 90.21 T) which was made after 1930 and could be one of the sketches of the famous Czája Circus (1938). The Transylvanian artists are represented by Sándor Ziffer's Portrait of Mátyás Minich (c. 1910, Inv.No. 90.15 T) and János Maitis Teutsclïs Blue composition (1924, Inv.No. 90.22 T). Both paintings are on display at the permanent exhibition of the Hungarian National Gallery. The picture of the Baumgartner-mill at Zala painted by Ignác Ödön Udvardy (Inv.No. 89.1 T) is also worth to mention and it was borrowed to the commemorational exhibition to Zalaegerszeg in the following year. Two pictures of István Erdély, the Dream (Inv.No. 89.39 T) and Fate (Inv.No. 89.40 T) give an exciting insight into his strange esoteric art. The paintings with their refined dissolving world are considered curiosity. GRAPHIC DEPARTMENT COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS The collection increased with 308 pieces in 1989-90. The most important ones are the Portrait of a man by Vilmos Engerth (Inv.No. F. 90.55), some late-cubist drawings of Csaba Vilmos Perlrott, a collection of 30 pages by László Mednyánszky and a 26-page sketch-book from the 1930s by István Farkas. These last two items arrived as a present from New York as well as the Self-portrait of St. Petersburg by Ferenc Reichental (Inv.No. F. 89.3/a). The patron of the flag 1848 by Gyula Batthyány (Inv.No. F. 90.9) represents very well the historical endeavours of the 1940s. COLLECTION OF PRINTS The increase of the two years involves 200 graphical pages on 186 items of inventory. The earliest of them is the Portrait of Miklós ("Magnificent" ) Esterházy from 1770 by Charles Pechwill-Ludwig Guttenbrunn (Inv.No. G. 89.101). Representation of home landscapes in albums or on single graphical pages was a popular subject in the 19th century. This mentality is shown on the litography, the View of Pozsony by an Unknown master (Inv.No. G. 90.35) which still follows the detailed and circumstantial depiction of earlier line-engravings. The collection increased with important prints of the great avantgárdé masters of the 1910—20s. For instance four works of János Maitis Teutsch, six of László Moholy Nagy, four of László Péri and one work of Sándor Bortnyik were acquired. The majority of prints were published in "Der Sturm" in 1923/24. The Printing-press series of József Divéky is a curiosity which was made in Switzerland and got to the collection as a present. COLLECTION OF POSTERS The collection increased with 994 items during the two years. Several works were acquired from the 1910s and 1920s (works of Márton Tuszkay),