Chinese Terracotta Army & William Blake Artworks Coming to Budapest this Year
- 26 Feb 2025 5:53 AM
The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest will present this year exhibitions featuring the Chinese Terracotta Army, the work of William Blake, and the mysterious Master MS and his era, while the Hungarian National Gallery will show Secession posters.
Director of the Museum and Fine Arts and its member institutions Laszlo Baan told the press on Tuesday that starting from this Friday and running through June 1, a collection of highlights from the Museum of Fine Arts's graphics collection will go on display at the world-famous Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao. Featured artists include such classics as Durer, Leonardo, Raffaello, Rubens, Rembrandt and Goya, as well as Hungarian masters Barabas, Aba-Novak and Vasarely, he added.
Baan said that thanks to successful exhibitions, record-breaking visitor numbers and the strengthening of the institution's prestige, the museum's collection grew considerably in recent years.
He said that nearly a thousand works of art had been acquired through purchases and donations, representing a total value of over 5 billion forints (EUR 12.4m). Among the new acquisitions he cited an El Greco painting, artworks representing a total value of one million euros received from Georg Baselitz, as well as pieces by Kandinsky and Girodet, an Egyptian mask, an antique vase and Japanese woodcarvings.
Baan said the exhibitions dubbed Guardians of Immortality - Terracotta Soldiers of China's First Emperor will be one of the most interesting shows of 2025, scheduled to open on November 27.
He also highlighted an exhibition to open on March 21 showing works by William Blake and his contemporaries thanks to the Museum of Fine Art's ongoing cooperation with London's Tate Gallery.
Source:
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.
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