The Hungarian National Gallery (also known as Magyar Nemzeti Galéria), was established in 1957 as the national

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. It is located in

Buda Castle Buda Castle ( hu, Budavári Palota, german: link=no, Burgpalast) is the historical castle and palace complex of the Hungarian Kings in Budapest. It was first completed in 1265, although the massive Baroque palace today occupying most of the si ...

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. Its collections cover Hungarian art in all genres, including the works of many nineteenth- and twentieth-century Hungarian artists who worked in Paris and other locations in the West. The primary museum for international art in Budapest is the Museum of Fine Arts.

Exhibitions

Floor plan of Buda Castle with Palatinal Crypt and annotation letters

The National Gallery houses Medieval, Renaissance,

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, and

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

Hungarian art Hungarian art stems from the period of the conquest of the Carpathian basin by the people of Árpád in the 9th century. Prince Árpád also organized earlier people settled in the area. Horsemen in the Carpathian basin Before the arrival of ...

. The collection includes

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s from the 15th century. The museum displays a number of works from Hungarian sculptors such as Károly Alexy, Maurice Ascalon,

Miklós Borsos Miklós Borsos (13 August 1906 – 27 January 1990) was a Hungarian sculptor and medallist. His style integrated elements of archaic art and classicism with modern elements. Biography Born in Nagyszeben, Transylvania (present-day Sibiu, Romania ...

Gyula Donáth Gyula Donáth (March 13, 1850 – September 27, 1909), was a Hungarian sculptor. He was born in Pest and studied in Vienna with G. Semper. From 1880 onwards he worked in Budapest. His sculptural style integrated elements of classicism and ...

János Fadrusz János Fadrusz (2 September 1858, Pressburg – 26 October 1903, Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor in the Neoclassical style. He was especially noted for his works on historical subjects. Biography He was the son of a poor cheesemaker, who h ...

Béni Ferenczy Béni Ferenczy (18 June 1890 – 2 June 1967) was a Hungarian sculptor, medalist and graphic artist. Early life and education Béni Ferenczy was born in 1890 in Szentendre, Hungary, the second son of Károly Ferenczy and Olga Fialka, both ...

István Ferenczy István Ferenczy (February 24, 1792 – July 4, 1856) was a Hungarian sculptor. Career Ferenczy made a number of exerted attempts to establish a school of sculpture in Hungary and it was his mission to establish and promote national art i ...

and

Miklós Izsó Miklós Izsó ( hu, Izsó Miklós, german: Nikolaus Izsó; September 9, 1831, Disznós-Horvát (now ''" Izsófalva"'', Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, north-east Hungary) - May 29, 1875, Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor whose sculptural style ...

. It also exhibits paintings and photographs by major Hungarian artists such as Brassai and

Ervin Marton Ervin Marton (known as Marton Ervin in Hungarian; 17 June 1912 – 30 April 1968) was a Hungarian-born artist and photographer who became an integral part of the Paris art culture beginning in 1937. An internationally recognized photographer, h ...

, part of the circle who worked in Paris before

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. The gallery displays the work of artists such as

Mihály Munkácsy Mihály Munkácsy (20 February 1844 – 1 May 1900) was a Hungarians, Hungarian Painting, painter. He earned international reputation with his Genre works, genre pictures and large-scale Christian art, biblical paintings. Early years Munk� ...

and

László Paál László Paál (30 July 1846, Zam, Hunedoara, Zám, Transylvania, Austrian Empire - 4 March 1879, Charenton-le-Pont, France) was a Hungarian Impressionist landscape painter. Life He was descended from a noble family and his father was a postma ...

. The museum also holds paintings by

Henrik Weber Henrik Wéber known as Henrik Weber (24 May 1818, in Pest, Hungary, Pest – 14 May 1866, in Pest) was a Hungarian portrait and history painter in the Realism (art), Realism movement. He is considered as one of the most important Hungarian painte ...

Károly Markó the Elder Károly Markó, also known as Carlo Marco (25 September 1791,
@ the Magyar Életrajzi Lexikonban. József Borsos Jozsef Borsos (21 December 1821, in Veszprém – 19 August 1883, in Budapest) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian portrait painter and photographer; best known for his Genre art, genre paintings in the Biedermeier style. Life and work His father, ...

Miklós Barabás Miklós Barabás (10 February 1810, in Markersdorf, Covasna County, Romania – 12 February 1898, in Budapest) was a Hungarian painter. He is mostly known for his portrait paintings, including a famous portrait of a young Franz Liszt, done ...

Bertalan Székely Bertalan Székely (8 May 1835, Kolozsvár, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (Now Cluj-Napoca after annexation by Romania following the Treaty of Trianon – 21 August 1910, Budapest) was a Hungarian history and portrait painter who worked in t ...

Károly Lotz Lotz Károly Antal Pál, or Karl Anton Paul Lotz (16 December 1833 – 13 October 1904) was a German- Hungarian painter. Career Karl Lotz was born in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany, the 7th and youngest surviving child of Wilhelm Chr ...

Pál Szinyei Merse Pál Szinyei Merse (4 July 1845, Szinyeújfalu - 2 February 1920, Jernye) was a Hungarian painter and art educator. Biography He was born into a family of the old nobility who supported the Hungarian Revolution. Because of the political unr ...

István Csók István Csók (13 February 1865, Sáregres – 1 February 1961) was a Hungarian Impressionist painter. Csok lived and exhibited in Paris for a portion of his life. He became most famous in Hungary for his nudes, portraits, and landscapes of ...

Béla Iványi-Grünwald Béla Iványi-Grünwald (6 May 1867 – 24 September 1940) was a Hungarian painter, a leading member of the Nagybánya artists' colony and founder of the Kecskemét artists' colony. Life Born in Som, Iványi-Grünwald began his artistic ...

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(''Ruins of Ancient Theatre, Taormina''),

József Rippl-Rónai József Rippl-Rónai (23 May 1861 – 25 November 1927) was a Hungarian painter. He first introduced modern artistic movements in the Hungarian art. Biography He was born in Kaposvár. After his studies at the High School there, he went to ...

(''Models''), and

Károly Ferenczy Károly Ferenczy (February 8, 1862 – March 18, 1917) was a Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian painter and leading member of the Nagybánya artists' colony.Ilona Sármány-Parsons"Károly Ferenczy" Oxford Art Online He was among several artists who ...

Gallery

Controversy

In 2008, the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, László Baán, proposed the merging of his museum with the National Gallery, due to the similar exhibition and collection profile of the two. Both museums and the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art specialize in 20th-century and contemporary fine art, much of which was created by Hungarian artists living overseas. After his request to add an €18million underground extension to the Museum of Fine Arts — which would have united collections spread across the city — was denied in February 2011, Baán presented an alternative plan to the government to build two new buildings at the cost of €150m. He envisioned the new buildings — one housing contemporary European art and the other Hungarian photography — as a "special museum island" that would complement the Museum of Fine Arts and the Budapest Art Hall (Műcsarnok) by permanently joining the two collections by 2017. In September 2011, Secretary of State for Culture

Géza Szőcs Géza Szőcs (21 August 1953 – 5 November 2020) was an ethnic Hungarian poet and politician from Transylvania, Romania, who served as Secretary of State for Culture of the Ministry of National Resources in Hungary from 2 June 2010 to 13 June 2 ...

officially announced plans to build a new structure along

Andrássy út Andrássy Avenue ( hu, Andrássy út) is a boulevard in Budapest, Hungary, dating back to 1872. It links Erzsébet Square with the City Park (Budapest), Városliget. Lined with spectacular Neo-renaissance mansions and townhouses featuring fine faca ...

close to

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and near the existing Budapest Museum of Fine Arts and Budapest Art Hall (Műcsarnok). This building would house the collections of the current Hungarian National Gallery. This expanded plan, which would utilize the entire boulevard, is also referred to as the

Budapest Museum Quarter The Budapest Museum Quarter is a proposed new cultural and tourist site to be located on Andrássy út in Budapest, Hungary, and has at its core the merger of the Hungarian National Gallery with the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts into one institutio ...

or Andrássy Quarter. In early December 2011, Ferenc Csák — director of the National Gallery since 2010 and critical of the proposed merger of the gallery with the Museum of Fine Arts— called the merger process “ ry unprofessional, anti–democratic and short–sighted” and announced that he would resign at the end of 2011. As of March 5, 2012, a new director had not been named and the National Gallery was being led by Deputy General Director György Szűcs.

References

External links

Official Hungarian National Gallery website
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