48 result(s) for book illustration
The Many Faces Of Hungary – Budapest Hosts Jewish & Catholic Festivals
- 5 Sep 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Budapest’s annual Jewish Summer Festival has become one of the most important and most popular cultural events in Hungary. This year the festival was held for the fifteenth time, between 26 August and 4 September, and it provided an amazing range of events, such as klezmer-influenced urban and pop music, classical and jazz performances, concerts and exhibitions.
Now On: Rippl-Rónai Exhibition, National Gallery Budapest
- 28 Aug 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"The significance of the 80.000-piece graphic collection of the Hungarian National Gallery is a little-known fact, since the paper-based objects are very sensitive and cannot be part of the permanent exhibition. That is why the paintings and sculptures of the 20th century permanent exhibition are complemented with our graphic cabinets of a changing thematic concept twice a year.
Now On: 'What Is Hungarian? Contemporary Answers', Műcsarnok Budapest
- 23 Aug 2012 12:45 PM
- community & culture
National identity has been one of the most prominent topics of Hungarian public discussions for more than two centuries now. Questions appear in numerous works of art, particularly after the birth of Historicism, the last great consistent stylistic trend of Romanticism. In the first part of the 19th century, in the so-called Reform Era, in the wake of German treatises on the character of nations, ...
Bob Dent's New Book: Hungary 1930 & The Forgotten History Of A Mass Protest
- 5 Jun 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
In 1930, on 1 September, 100,000 workers, employed and unemployed, marched through Budapest under the slogan ‘Work and Bread!’ Many were injured and one person was killed as the police used swords and, at one point, fired into the crowd. This study sketches the political history of the Hungarian labour movement from the late 19th century to the 1920s and the build-up to the 1930 protest, ...
9th International Book Festival Budapest, Millenáris, 19 - 22 April
- 19 Apr 2012 11:45 AM
- community & culture
After last year’s special Guest of Honour presence, when in honour of Hungary’s EU presidency, as the first among international book fairs, we invited the other 26 member states of the European Union besides Hungary, their belles-lettres book publishing and one author from each country, this year the Guest of Honour will not be a single country either, but the cultural region of the Scandinavian ...
Top 10 Books To Read About Hungary, Part III
- 23 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Fiction and food, they go together, don’t they? Read a disturbing story of youth set in Budapest in the early 1900s, and then find out all about the origins and nature of Hungarian cuisine…
Guided Tour In English, Yona Friedman Exhibition, Ludwig Museum Budapest, 28 January
- 25 Jan 2012 8:04 AM
- entertainment
"The architect and thinker of Hungarian origin, Yona Friedman is one of the outstanding and exceptionally versatile figures of the urban architectural discourse that developed in the second half of the twentieth century. He drew cities on colossal trusses rising up, floating above metropolises, rivers or marshes, bridges connecting four continents, multi-storeyed urban gardens, residential ...
Biblia Scripta Exhibition, Pannonhalma Archabbey, Until 11 November
- 11 Nov 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"The theme of this exhibition is to explore medieval writing and the codex making process through two codices preserved at Pannonhalma. The works of scribes, various writing materials and mediums, the artistry of codex illustration, the migration of codices and the characteristics of medieval reading are presented.
Victorious Hungarian Stamps
- 25 Oct 2010 3:00 AM
- community & culture
PostEurop select each year the most beautiful stamp of the continent’s post offices and after 2008 and 2009, Hungary won again the first prize of the association for the third time. The category for this year was created around the subject of children’s books and amongst the stamps of 52 European countries, the Hungarian works illustrated with Vackor, the little bruin proved to be the most ...
The Many Faces Of Hungary – Budapest Hosts Jewish & Catholic Festivals
- 5 Sep 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Budapest’s annual Jewish Summer Festival has become one of the most important and most popular cultural events in Hungary. This year the festival was held for the fifteenth time, between 26 August and 4 September, and it provided an amazing range of events, such as klezmer-influenced urban and pop music, classical and jazz performances, concerts and exhibitions.
Now On: Rippl-Rónai Exhibition, National Gallery Budapest
- 28 Aug 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
"The significance of the 80.000-piece graphic collection of the Hungarian National Gallery is a little-known fact, since the paper-based objects are very sensitive and cannot be part of the permanent exhibition. That is why the paintings and sculptures of the 20th century permanent exhibition are complemented with our graphic cabinets of a changing thematic concept twice a year.
Now On: 'What Is Hungarian? Contemporary Answers', Műcsarnok Budapest
- 23 Aug 2012 12:45 PM
- community & culture
National identity has been one of the most prominent topics of Hungarian public discussions for more than two centuries now. Questions appear in numerous works of art, particularly after the birth of Historicism, the last great consistent stylistic trend of Romanticism. In the first part of the 19th century, in the so-called Reform Era, in the wake of German treatises on the character of nations, ...
Bob Dent's New Book: Hungary 1930 & The Forgotten History Of A Mass Protest
- 5 Jun 2012 9:00 AM
- community & culture
In 1930, on 1 September, 100,000 workers, employed and unemployed, marched through Budapest under the slogan ‘Work and Bread!’ Many were injured and one person was killed as the police used swords and, at one point, fired into the crowd. This study sketches the political history of the Hungarian labour movement from the late 19th century to the 1920s and the build-up to the 1930 protest, ...
9th International Book Festival Budapest, Millenáris, 19 - 22 April
- 19 Apr 2012 11:45 AM
- community & culture
After last year’s special Guest of Honour presence, when in honour of Hungary’s EU presidency, as the first among international book fairs, we invited the other 26 member states of the European Union besides Hungary, their belles-lettres book publishing and one author from each country, this year the Guest of Honour will not be a single country either, but the cultural region of the Scandinavian ...
Top 10 Books To Read About Hungary, Part III
- 23 Mar 2012 8:00 AM
- community & culture
"Fiction and food, they go together, don’t they? Read a disturbing story of youth set in Budapest in the early 1900s, and then find out all about the origins and nature of Hungarian cuisine…
Guided Tour In English, Yona Friedman Exhibition, Ludwig Museum Budapest, 28 January
- 25 Jan 2012 8:04 AM
- entertainment
"The architect and thinker of Hungarian origin, Yona Friedman is one of the outstanding and exceptionally versatile figures of the urban architectural discourse that developed in the second half of the twentieth century. He drew cities on colossal trusses rising up, floating above metropolises, rivers or marshes, bridges connecting four continents, multi-storeyed urban gardens, residential ...
Biblia Scripta Exhibition, Pannonhalma Archabbey, Until 11 November
- 11 Nov 2010 12:00 AM
- community & culture
"The theme of this exhibition is to explore medieval writing and the codex making process through two codices preserved at Pannonhalma. The works of scribes, various writing materials and mediums, the artistry of codex illustration, the migration of codices and the characteristics of medieval reading are presented.
Victorious Hungarian Stamps
- 25 Oct 2010 3:00 AM
- community & culture
PostEurop select each year the most beautiful stamp of the continent’s post offices and after 2008 and 2009, Hungary won again the first prize of the association for the third time. The category for this year was created around the subject of children’s books and amongst the stamps of 52 European countries, the Hungarian works illustrated with Vackor, the little bruin proved to be the most ...