Csontváry 170
The Museum of Fine Arts-Hungarian National Gallery and the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs celebrate the 170th anniversary of the birth of Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1853-1919) with a joint exhibition. The selection of works from the two public collections, which hold the largest number of the painter-genius' works, will be on display at the Szépművészeti in the framework of the Bartók Spring International Art Weeks. From there, the exhibition will travel to Pécs in August, to the Csontváry Museum, which is 50 years old this year. The exhibition of around 40 works is a tribute to one of the most original and best-known artists in the history of Hungarian painting.
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The last time an exhibition of Csontváry's works was opened in the Museum of Fine Arts 60 years ago, in 1963. Then the Marble Hall housed the largest works, but now the renovated Ion-Pergamon Hall's spacious, colonnaded halls house The Ruins of the Greek Theatre in Taormina and Baalbek, The Entrance to the Panic Wall in Jerusalem and The Fountain of Mary in Nazareth, the Waterfalls of Judea and Schaffhausen, and the famous Lone Cedar and Pilgrimage to the Cedars in Lebanon.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
The Museum of Fine Arts presents monuments of universal and Hungarian art from antiquity to the end of the 18th century. As part of the Heroes' Square monument complex, it is one of Budapest's World Heritage Sites.