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THE EXHIBITION OF IMRE ZSÖGÖDI NAGY - 9.4 – 30.5.2010 THE PHOTO EXHIBITION OF ARCHITECT JÓZSEF S. SEBESTYÉN - 9.10 – 20.6, 2010. HUNGARICONS - 18.2. – 5.4.2010 SZŐNYI PAINTINGS AT HOME AGAIN - 11.2. – 6.4.2010 ONE MUSEUM TWO EXHIBITIONS – 8.10 – 6.12.2009 SELMA LAGERLÖF - THE STORIES THAT FLEW WORLDWIDE - 1.10 – 6.12.2009 NATIONAL AQUARELLE TRIENNUAL I. - EGER - 1.8 - 18.9.2009 THE AGE OF KNIGHTHOOD REBORN - 30.4 – 27.9.2009 ALTERATION - 26.2 - 19.4.2009 THE COLOURFUL DREAMS OF REMEMBRANCE – 28.11.2008 - 31.1.2009The exhibition of painter Imre Zsögödi Nagy (1893-1976) from the Csík Szekler Museum
9 April – 30 May, 2010
Top of the pageThe Faces and Image of a Town/Sepsiszentgyörgy
Sepsiszentgyörgy. The photo exhibition of architect József S. Sebestyén.
9 April – 20 June, 2010
HUNGARICONS - 18 February – 5 April, 2010
First time together, in Eger
The Subject Collection of Tamás Kárpáti
The temporary exhibition displays objects of famous Hungarians incorporated into paintings, statues and other works of art, like paintbrushes of artists, eyeglasses of authors, swimming costume of an Olympic Champion as well as the tie of John Lennon.
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Szőnyi paintings at home again - 11 February – 6 April, 2010
The works of István Szőnyi (1894-1960) from the collection of Zsuzsa Szőnyi
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One Museum Two Exhibitions – 8 October – 6 December, 2009.
Selection from the collection of the Przemyśl National Museum
The cultural contact between Przemyśl and Eger has a long history. In the cooperation between the two museums 2009 was the year of art. After the temporary aquarelle collection of the Hungarian museum exhibited in Poland in May, in October the Polish culture revealed itself in Eger, in the Dobó Bastion of the Castle Museum.
Marian Stonski (1892-1977)
He is the most famous painter of the town of Przemyśl. Besides painting he was a graphic artist, ornamental painter, restorer, conservator and painting copyist. He started from a kind of naturalist approach – landscapes, town views, portraits and still lifes – but by the end his life he created rather modern lyrical abstract compositions. His paintings were on display in one of the halls of the exhibition.
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Polish "museum posters"
Polish graphics have legendary fame. Since 1969 the museum in Przemyśl has been collecting the works of art, namely “museum posters” shown at biennuals, the same way Eger museum collects aquarelles. The topics of the posters shown in this exhibition have a wide spectrum, besides giving information about the event, letters bear an esthatic appearance as the basic function of posters. Special pieces are on display, from the beginning of the 20th century, the first heydays of the genre of posters, secession pieces could be seen as well as a few agitation ones from the period of communism.
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Selma Lagerlöf - The stories that flew worldwide - 1 October – 6 December, 2009.
Thanks to the fruitful connection between the Värmlands Museum in Sweden and the István Dobó Castle Museum in Eger, Hungary on the 1st October 2009 our exhibition Selma Lagerlöf - The Stories That Flew Worldwide opened in the Castle Museum.
The author Selma Lagerlöf and her stories is always of interest in large parts of the world. She is one of the most borrowed Nobel Prize winners in Swedish libraries, far more than Hemingway or Steinbeck for example. Many of Selma Lagerlöf’s works are inspired by stories she heard in older Värmland. Others are based on global myths and legends. Her most noted works are Gösta Berling, Jerusalem I and II and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson.
After being nominated several times, Selma Lagerlöf was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909. She was the first Swede to receive the literature award but also the first woman.
In the exhibition the visitor could learn about the curved road of the author’s life, the story of the Ordered Book, and what Mårbacka meant her.
The opening ceremony took place with among others the Ambassador of Sweden to Hungary and the governor of Värmland County attending in the Dobó Bastion of Eger Castle.
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National Aquarelle Triennual I. - Eger
Church Gallery 1 August 2009. - 18 September 2009.
(address: Eger, Trinitárius utca 1)
The town of Eger has organised the National Aquarelle Biennual, the sole national contemporary fine arts programme twenty times so far. The mayor of the town has dedicated the István Dobó Castle Museum to organise, to give the professional background for the design and to financially transact the exhibition for decades, relying on the professional background and infrastructure of the museum.
According to the European trends and the financial possibilities since 2009 the exhibition will be organised in every three years, thus lives on as a triennual. Contemporary artists send their works of art to the exhibition, in 2009 200 artists sent their over 600 paintings. Expert jury (artists and art historians) decided which works of art to be exhibited (paintings of 126 artists were on display) and who were the artists that won one of the pledged awards.
The winner of the main award of the Mayor of Eger – Géza Szily
The award winner of the Ministry of Education and Culture – Péter Ujházi
The award winner of the Mayor of Miskolc – Éva Krajcsovics
The award winner of Omya Eger Ltd. – Berta Mayer
The award winner of the Heves County Assembly Chairman – Tihamér Vízi
Connected to the Triennual several exhibitions opened in Eger, which brought the special world of aquarelle-painting closer to the audience:
ACCESS TO THE PLACE
The exhibition of Bikácsi Daniela, the main award winner of the 20th National Aquarelle Biennual
Eszterházy Károly College, Chapel Gallery (address: Eger, Eszterházy tér 1.)
PRESENT-DAY AQUARELLES II.
Hommage a’ Ernő Tolvaly and El Kazovszkij
The exhibition of the Hungarian Water-Colour Painters' Society
István Dobó Castle Museum, Gothic Palace (Eger, Vár 1.)
FACES
Aquarelles from the collection of the Works of Art of Children from Sznina (Slovakia)
EKMK – Forrás Children and Youth Centre (Eger, Bartók tér 6.)
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THE AGE OF KNIGHTHOOD REBORN
Old-new weapons and garments from the Czech Republic and Hungary
30 April – 27 September, 2009
Making copies of historic artefacts is not a new phenomenon, it is at least as old as artefact collecting. Museums, emerging from the 19th century also used this method to expand their incomplete collections. Nowadays, the demand of museum education and the military traditions gaining more and more ground are boosting the interest for artefact copies.
In the Czech Republic, where the exhibited collection comes from, military tradition enjoys great popularity, and the handicraft supplying them has become a real industry.
The most vivid part of the exhibition was the garment reconstructions, which followed the changes of the European fashion from medieval times to early new age from century to century. The replicas of garments were not allowed to be touched by hand, but the copies of weapons on display were, moreover a few helmets could be tried on. The most valuable piece of the exhibition was an original renaissance armour.
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ALTERATION
Imitation Reborn
26 February 2009 - 19 April, 2009.
The exhibition of István Dobó Castle Museum titled Alteration was open in the Dobó Bastion until 19th April 2009.
The story of the exhibited pictures is very interesting. In the autumn of 2007 the Nagyházi Gallery received a bequest, the majority of which were earlier or recently painted faked works, reproductions or just poor attempts. First the gallery decided to destroy the paintings to reduce the number of imitations. Later an art historian, Katalin Nagy T. decided to offer a special solution for destroying them, rebirth. The paintings were given to contemporary artists, who could transform, repaint and cut the pictures into pieces, according to their taste. And so the most amusing material of fine arts of the last few years’ was born, with full of humour and playfulness. At the moment the reinterpretation of ninety paintings exist by sixty-five painters.
The atmosphere of the museum requires the genuine works of art of the original painters to be shown, separately in glass cases to highlight their mental and economic added value.
SEN. KÁROLY MARKÓ (1791-1869) JÓZSEF KOSZTA (1861-1949) JÓZSEF RIPPL-RÓNAI (1861-1927) ISTVÁN CSÓK (1865-1961) BÉLA IVÁNYI GRÜNWALD (1867-1940) JÁNOS VASZARY (1867-1939) OSZKÁR GLATZ (1872-1958) BÉLA KÁDÁR (1877-1956) PÁL MOLNÁR C. (1894-1981) LAJOS GULÁCSY (1882-1932) VILMOS ABA NOVÁK (1891-1941)
among others.
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The Colourful Dreams of Remembrance
28 November 2008 - 31 January, 2009.
The Colourful Dreams of Remembrance – the Hungarian contemporary gypsy fine arts exhibition was organised in the Dobó Bastion of István Dobó Castle Museum. The material was selected from the permanent collections of the Museum of Ethnography and the Hungarian Cultural Institution, and also from the Horn-collection.
On a separate floor could be seen János Balázs’s (1905-1977) paintings, photocopies of his poems, publications and films about him. He was one of the initiators of the Gypsies expressing themselves through art and the searching for their place in a majority society.
In the upper exhibition area could be seen the works of artists still productive today – Márta Bada, Balázs András Balogh, József Fenyvesi, Teréz Orsós, Gyöngyi Ráczné Kalányos, Brigitta Milák, Mara Oláh, Gábor Dilinkó, Sándor Pintér – and the recently deceased Jolán Oláh. It is worth mentioning that this exhibition could neither have taken place without the several decades long research and collecting work nor without the contemporary gypsy fine arts exhibitions organised regularly since 1979.
The curators of this exhibition were Péter Szuhay (ME) and Mariann Kolozsváry (HNG). The Hungarian National Gallery and the Ministry of Education and Culture provided sponsorship to the exhibition.
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