Museum of Fine Arts Archives

Learn more about El Greco in Budapest.

El Greco is a very famous painter. Few people know that the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest has the biggest collection of El Greco paintings outside Spain. If you didn’t know, but would like to learn more about El Greco, this is a fabulous opportunity to do so.

In addition to the El Greco works permanently located in Budapest, the Museum of Fine Arts has also borrowed paintings from famous museums such as Museo Nacional del Prado and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the National Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

The goal of this exhibition is to teach you more about El Greco, and also to give you an understanding of the society and the environment in which he lived. You will, therefore, also see works from his son Jorge Manuel Theotokopulos, and from another contemporary named Luis Tristán at this exhibition in Budapest.

El Greco in Budapest

Museum of Fine Arts
October 28, 2022 – February 19, 2023

From Cezanne to Malevich (Exhibition)

The most interesting exhibition in Budapest during the autumn and winter of 2020/2021 will be the exhibition titled From Cezanne to Malevich.

Back in 2012/2013, the Museum of Fine Arts hosted an exhibition about Cezanne, which also portrayed works by Michelangelo, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and Nicolas Poussin. The exhibition was a major success, and more than 200,000 visitors came to the museum to see the exhibited items.

In the period from October 2020 until February 2021, a similar, but still very different exhibition will be hosted in the museum. The exhibition will greatly deal with the topic of abstract paintings, and besides more than 50 works created by Cezanne, we can also enjoy works created by Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Vilmos Huszúar, Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Nikolaus Pevsner, Mihail Larionov, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Moholy-Nagy László and Bortnyik Sándor.

In order to make this a great exhibition, the Museum of Fine Arts will cooperate and borrow paintings from institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Musee d’Orsay in Paris, the National Gallery in London, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the Metropolitan Museum of Art és Museum in New York, and several other amazing museums.

From Cezanne to Malevich

Museum of Fine Arts
October 2020 – February 2021 (exact dates are not yet official)

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Albrecht Dürer and his contemporaries (Exhibition)

From June 2020 until September 2020, and the exhibition will be held in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest presenting more than 50 works from Albrecht Dürer and his contemporaries.

This exhibition will show important works from the period in between the Gothic era and the time of Mannerism. The goal of the exhibition is to show the works of this era and also portraying techniques used by painters.

*Albrecht Durer Date: Pen in brown ink 272×215 mm*

Albrecht Dürer and his contemporaries

Museum of Fine Arts
June 2020 – September 2020
exact dates have not yet been given

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The grave of Pharaoh Amenhotep II (Exhibition)

In the year of 1898, the grave of Amenhotep II was discovered in the Valley of Kings near to Luxor in Egypt. This will be an extraordinary exhibition for those interested in Egyptian history, and especially the main room of the exhibition will be a thrill, as it will show almost a copy of the original grave chamber which was discovered during the excavations.

The exhibition was shown in a similar way in Milano in 2017, but still, this will be a completely different exhibition with different objects on display. The exhibition is divided into three different parts.

Statues and reliefs depicting the king and his servants and officers, and objects belonging to them.
The tools and objects used in daily life by the contemporary elite
Distinctive tombstones and objects located in the graves of other important members of the community from the same period.

Totally, more than 140 artifacts will be shown at the exhibition, and many of them are borrowed from institutions such as the British Museum, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna, and some others. But, if you want to check this exhibition while in Budapest, make sure to visit the magnificent Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, located at the Heroes Square. You can easily get there using the metro as you travel to the stop Hösök tere on the yellow metro line.

Exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in budapest

The grave of Pharaoh Amenhotep II (Exhibition)

Museum of Fine Arts
April – July 2020 (exact dates are not announced yet)

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Rembrandt and his pupils – an art exhibition in Budapest

Posted on October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 by Budapest Guide

Did you know that Rembrandt died 350 years ago (in 2019)? For that reason, lots of art museums bring extra focus on his name this year, and that is true for the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest as well.

Those visiting the exhibition will be able to see works of Rembrandt, and next to his works, see the work of his pupils and thus discover the influence he had on them. The works are divided into the following categories: “Portrait, nude, landscape, figure sketch and narrative compositions.” As a result, you will not only see works of Rembrandt at this temporary exhibition, but you will also see works from some of Rembrandts pupils such as Ferdinand Bol, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Samuel van Hoogstraten.

The exhibition is curated by Bernadett Tóth, an art historian at the Museum of Fine Arts’ Department of Prints and Drawings.

The Mother of Rembrandt - a painting made by Gerrit Dou — The Mother of Rembrandt – a painting made by Gerrit Dou.

Rembrandt and his pupils
September 20th, 2019 – January 5th, 2020
Museum of Fine Arts

The museum is located at the magnificent Heroes square. This is a part of the City Park in Budapest, one of the most beautiful areas of the Hungarian capital. You can easily get to the exhibition using public transportation, and the easiest way is by using the yellow metro and travel to the stop named Hösök tere (Heroes square).

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Museum of Fine Arts to close down for three years

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Budapest Guide

The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest will be closed temporarily from the middle of February 2015 due to the renovations of the museum.

The museum will be closed from 15th February in 2015 and the reconstruction works will supposedly last three years, but in theory they plan to reopen the museum again in the summer of 2017. At the moment the Museum of Fine Arts only show three exhibitions to its visitors which includes the exhibition on Rembrandt which presents the most beautiful works of the artist.

The Museum of Fine Arts is located at Város Liget (City Park) in Budapest which is one of the largest green areas of the city. The City Park gives home to several attractions such as the zoo, the Szèchenyi bath or the Museum of Fine Arts. The Museum of Fine Arts is located just at the Hero Square which is one of the most famous spots in the city. The museum is a neo-Renaissance and neo-Classicist building which opened its gates the first time in 1906. The museum has a wide range of collections of the most outstanding artists including Rembrandt, Raffaello, Leonardo, Monet, Goya and Dürer so do not forget to check the museum out before it closes and keep it mind the next time in the summer of 2017 will be open again.

Museum of Fine Arts
Budapest, Dózsa György út 41, 1146

Alan Sonfist exhibition

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Budapest Guide

The exhibition presents the works of the American artist Alan Sonfist for the first time in Budapest and it will be available until February 15th this year.

Alan Sonfist is one of the first and also the leading artists of the movement called environmental, earth or land art. The American artists is one of the most outstanding artist of the land art and he became famous with his first work ‘Time Landscape’ which he created in New York, Manhattan. This year the ‘Time Landscape’ celebrates its 50th birthday and in this occasion visitors will have the chance to explore this new form of art in Budapest. At the exhibition visitors have the chance to discover more on the art of Alan Sonfist and to explore more on this form of art as well. Alan Sonfist in his art works he deals with the history of nature and the effect people had on the Earth through the years and centuries. At the exhibition visitors can see nature and art from a new perspective. This is the first exhibition held in central and eastern Europe of the work of Alan Sonfist. The exhibition will take place at the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest from 18th December in 2014 until 15th February in 2015.

For more information on the museum and other exhibitions there, visit the following page.

Google Art Project at the Museum of Fine Arts

Posted on November 30, 2014November 30, 2014 by Budapest Guide

The Museum of Fine Arts is located in the capital of Hungary, Budapest and it was one of the first museums in Hungary that joined to this innovative and unique project to the Google Art Project in 2012.

Paul Cezanne in Museum of Fine Arts (this and lots of other pictures can be seen online)

The main goal of the Google Art Project is to bring closer the audience to the greatest master pieces of the museum. This new technique let everyone to discover more on the paintings and it makes it possible to check even the smallest details on the paintings. It is also important that with this new technique all the art works will be saved for the next generations. With the Google Art Project 30 art works of the museum will be available only with a few clicks from home. The new technique works just like the Google street view and it will open up new possibilities in the world of art and for everyone who is interested in art. On the art works with Google Art Project you can check all the small and hidden details which can not be seen otherwise.

Sounds cool, doesn’t it? Check it out right here! For more information on the museum itself and its temporary exhibitions, check this site.

For your information, the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest is also a part of the Google Art Project, meaning that you can see more than 100 artifacts and pictures from the museum in the Google Art Project online as well!

Immendorff. Long Live Painting – Exhibition

Posted on November 3, 2014October 3, 2014 by Budapest Guide

Jörg Immendorff was one of the most outstanding contemporary German painters. He was born in 1945 and he died in 2007. Immendorff was also a sculptor, designer and art professor.

He is one of the most divisive painters of the post-war German artists and his paintings can not be classified into historical or other categories but on the other hand he is one of the most typical German painter not only because he was interested in the German political questions and issues but because in his paintings he adopted earlier German painting traditions from Otto Dix, George Grosz and Max Beckmann. On his paintings he used exultant colours and his vivid imaginary. The exhibition is mostly focused on the transformation he had through the years in his art works. The exhibition presents Immendorff works in a new way and visitors will have the chance to explore the development of the artist through his paintings. The main goal of the exhibition is to show the vivid colours he used on his paintings, the shades and the details. The exhibition will take place in the capital of Hungary in Budapest at the Museum of Fine Arts. It will be shown from 9th November 2014 until next year 15th February 2015.

If you want to know more on the exhibition and the museum, visit the official site.

Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age – Exhibition

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Budapest Guide

The exhibition Rembrandt and the Golden Age shows the visitors the 17th century which was one of the golden ages in the European and its art works in the Netherlands.

The exhibition has a wide collection of the best paintings from this period of time and it is focused mostly on the best Rembrandt paintings. Rembrandt is one of the most outstanding painters of the Dutch Golden Age. He was a Dutch painter and he is considered one of the biggest figures in the Dutch history and in the European art. The National Museum of Fine Arts display more than 170 paintings from different artist from this period of time and over 20 masterpieces from Rembrandt. The exhibition is focused on the Dutch Golden Age and visitors can have the chance to discover this age from a different point of view.

The exhibition gives the opportunity to the visitors to explore the best masterpieces from this period of time and to get familiar with the life back in Rembrandt’s days. The exhibition is in collaboration with other museums from Europe. It works with Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and the Kremer Collection. The exhibition will be held in the capital of Hungary, Budapest at the Museum of Fine Arts from 31st October 2014 to 15th February 2015.

For more information on the museum and the exhibition check the official site.