<b>Hungary</b>: Modern Art: Collecting Art Nouveau at Budapest around 1900

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  • Zsombor Jékely

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Zsombor Jékely

 Zsombor Jékely received his PhD in Art History in 2003 from Yale University, with a dissertation on the medieval frescoes at the Augustinian church of Siklós in Hungary. From 2001 to 2006 he was in charge of the Old Sculpture Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. He was curator of the exhibition Verrocchio's Christ in 2003, and co-curator of the exhibition Sigismundus - Rex et Imperator. Art and Culture at the age of Sigismund of Luxemburg, 1387-1437 in Budapest and Luxemburg in 2006. Since 2006 he has been head of the exhibition department at the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest; since 2010 he has been Director of Collections. In 2008 he was project manager and co-curator of the exhibition The Dowry of Beatrice, dedicated to Italian majolica in the court of King Matthias, and has curated numerous other exhibitions. He is the author of articles on wall-painting in medieval Hungary, and co-author of books on medieval wall-painting in Transylvania (2008) and North-Eastern Hungary (2009). He is the recipient of a Mellon Research Fellowship at Villa I Tatti in Florence (January to March, 2010).

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Published

01.04.2014

How to Cite

Jékely, Z. (2014). <b>Hungary</b>: Modern Art: Collecting Art Nouveau at Budapest around 1900. Uncommon Culture, 4(7/8), 112–119. Retrieved from https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/UC/article/view/5280

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