The museum's entrance

The Museum of Fine Arts (Hungarian: Szépművészeti Múzeum) is a museum in Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary, facing the Palace of Art. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Heroes Square – overview Heroes Square has statues representing the founders of the Magyar nation 1100 years ago Palace of Art Heroes Square (HÅ‘sök tere in Hungarian) is a large plaza in Budapest, Hungary. ... For other uses, see Budapest (disambiguation). ... Palace of Art, overview Palace of Art, main entrance The Hall of Art or Palace of Art (Műcsarnok in Hungarian) is an art museum in Budapest, located in Heroes Square, facing the Museum of Fine Arts. ...

It was built by the plans of Albert Schickedanz and Fülöp Herzog in an eclectic-neoclassical style, between 1900 and 1906. The museum's collection is made up of international art (other than Hungarian), including all periods of European art, and comprises more than 100,000 pieces. The collection is made up of various older additions such as those from Buda Castle, the Esterhazy and Zichy estates, as well as donations from individual collectors. The Museum's collection is made up of six departments: Egyptian, Antique, Old sculpture gallery, Old painter gallery, Modern collection, Graphics collection. The institution celebrated its centenary in 2006. Albert Schickedanz (October 14, 1846 - July 11, 1915) was a Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style. ... Eclecticism is a kind of mixed style in the fine arts, in which features are borrowed from various sources and styles. ... Late Baroque classicizing: G. P. Pannini assembles the canon of Roman ruins and Roman sculpture into one vast imaginary gallery (1756) Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that... Äž: For the film, see: 1900 (film). ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Buda Castle (Hungarian: Budai Vár, Turkish: Budin Kalesi) is the historical castle of the Hungarian kings in Budapest, Hungary. ... The House of Esterházy (- German, in Hungarian: Eszterházy, in Slovak: Esterházi) was a noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary since the Middle Ages, which was among the great territorial magnates of the Kingdom of Hungary, during the time it was part of the Austrian Habsburg Empire. ... Zichy (of Zich and Vasonykeo), the name of a noble Magyar family, conspicuous in Hungarian history from the latter part of the 13th century onwards. ...

The museum at night

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Egyptian art

The gallery holds the second largest collection of Egyptian art in central Europe. It comprises a number of collections bought together by Hungarian Egyptologist Eduard Mahler in the 1930s. Subsequent digs in Egypt have expanded the collection. Some of the most interesting pieces are the painted mummy sarcophagi. Eduard Mahler, or Mahler Ede (September 28, 1857, Ziffer/Ciffer or Cziffer, Hungary (now Slovakia) - June 29, 1945, Budapest) was a Hungarian-Austrian astronomer, Orientalist, natural scientist. ...

A corridor

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Antique collection

The core of the collection was made up of pieces acquired from Paul Arndt, a classicist from Munich. The exhibition mainly includes works from Ancient Greece and Rome. Most significant is the 3rd century marble statue called the Budapest dancer. The Cyprean and Myciaenian collection is also notable, also the ceramics and bronzes. For other uses, see Munich (disambiguation). ...

Old Paintings

The development of European painting from the 13th to 18th centuries is documented in the 3000 pieces shown. The core of the collection was those acquired from the Esterhazy estate. The collection is split up into Italian, German, Netherlandish, Flemish, French, English and Spanish art. Significant works include Raphael's 'Esterhazy Madonna',Durer's self portrait, Bruegel's St John the Baptist, works by Rembrandt and a very strong collection of works by El Greco, Velasquez and Goya. This article is about the Renaissance artist. ... Self-Portrait, 1493, Oil on Canvas Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 - April 6, 1528) was a German painter, wood carver and engraver. ... Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. ... El Greco (The Greek, 1541 – April 7, 1614) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. ... Las Meninas, painted in 1656. ... This article is about Francisco Goya, a Spanish painter. ...

Old Paintings gallery

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Old Sculpture

The collection's main section is devoted to pieces from the Middle Ages to the 17th century. It was based on the Italian collection of Karoly Pulszky and Istvan Ferenczy's bronze collection. From the latter came one of the most treasured works, the small equestrian by Leonardo da Vinci. A number of painted wooden sculptures feature in the German and Austrian section. “Da Vinci” redirects here. ...

Graphic Arts

The collection shows selected rotating exhibitions of its large 10,000 drawings and 100,000 woodcuts mainly sourced from the Esterhazy, Istvan Delhaes and Pal Majovsky acquisitions. All periods of European graphic art - drawings, etchings, woodcuts - are richly represented. Important pieces include Leonardo's 'battling heads', 15 drawings by Rembrandt, 200 pieces by Goya and French acquatints. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. ... This article is about Francisco Goya, a Spanish painter. ...

Modern gallery

The museum's collection of 19th and 20th century art is less significant than those found in other departments; it is a younger collection. The bulk of the painting is from the biedermeier period and French art. From the latter are representatives of the Romantic period (Eugène Delacroix), the 'Barbizon' school (Camille Corot,Gustave Courbet) and Impressionism (Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissaro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec). There is a large collection of sculptures by Auguste Rodin and Constantin Meunier. Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (April 26, 1798 – August 13, 1863) was one of the most important of the French Romantic painters. ... Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (portrait by Nadar) Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 26, 1796 – February 22, French landscape painter. ... Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. ... “Manet” redirects here. ... Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926)[1] was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movements philosophy of expressing ones perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein... The garden at Pontoise, painted 1877. ... Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. ... Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec [äNrÄ“ du tOOlOOz lōtrek] (November 24, 1864 – September 9, 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the decadent and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an oeuvre of provocative images of modern life. ... Auguste Rodin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Constantin Meunier (1831 - April 4, 1905), Belgian painter and sculptor, was born at Etterbeek, Brussels. ...

One of the halls in the museum

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Vasarely Museum

Victor Vasarely the famous Hungarian artist donated a significant collection of his works to the gallery. These have found a permanent home outside the walls of the gallery at the Zichy mansion in Obuda. The two storey wing of the building is known as the Vazarely Museum and is the only one of its kind in eastern Europe. Victor Vasarely (Vásárhelyi GyÅ‘zÅ‘) (9 April 1906, Pécs - 15 March 1997, Paris) was a French Hungarian-born artist often acclaimed as the father of Op-art. ... Zichy (of Zich and Vasonykeo), the name of a noble Magyar family, conspicuous in Hungarian history from the latter part of the 13th century onwards. ... Óbuda (sometimes is written in English as Obuda) was a historical city in Hungary. ...

Directors of the museum

1906-1914 Ernő Kammerer

1914-1935 Elek Petrovics

1935-1944 Dénes Csánky

1949-1952 Imre Oltványi

1952-1955 Ferenc Redő

1956-1964 Andor Pigler

1964-1984 Klára Garas

1984-1991 Ferenc Merényi

1991-2004 Miklós Mojzer

2004. – László Baán

See also

• Palace of Art

Palace of Art, overview Palace of Art, main entrance The Hall of Art or Palace of Art (Műcsarnok in Hungarian) is an art museum in Budapest, located in Heroes Square, facing the Museum of Fine Arts. ...

External links

• Museum website (in English)
• Museum.hu information (in English)

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