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19th and 20th Century Paintings – Exhibitions of the Collection
Permanently exhibited
Past exhibitions
- 2022
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Sean Scully: Passenger – A Retrospective
The exhibition is temporarily closed
- 2021
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We Belong Together. Hungary before Trianon in drawings
The exhibition is temporarily closed
- 2020
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Forsaken World. The Art of István Farkas (1887-1944)
13 December 2019 – 1 March 2020
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Tuned In – The coming together of the Hungarian National Gallery and the 70-year-old Budapest Puppet Theatre
3 March – 18 October 2020
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Shoah
13 December 2019 – 1 March 2020
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Living Collection
17 October 2019. - 26 January 2020.
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„I am an Artist of the World…” Philip de László (1869-1937)
27 September 2019 – 5 January 2020
- 2019
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Bacon, Freud and the Painting of the School of London
9 October 2018 - 13 January 2019
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The Surrealist Movement from Dalí to Magritte – Crisis and Rebirth in 1929
28 June – 20 October 2019
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Camera Lucida
22 June 2019 – 29 September
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Conditio Inhumana
12 January 2019 - 3 February 2019
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From The Clearest Springs. Tradition and Abstraction in the Art of Dezső Korniss (1908-1984)
19 December 2018 - 7 April 2019
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Bauhaus100. Abstract Revue – Selected Works from the Estate of Andor Weininger
29 March 2019 - 28 July 2019
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Rivers, Lakes, Seas – Vitalizing Water. Water Motifs in 19th Century European and Hungarian Paintings
15 June – 17 November 2019
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Floating Infinity. Žilvinas Kempinas – Attila Csörgő – Miklós Erdély
13 December 2018 - 19 May 2019
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The Phantom of the Self-Portrait. Rembrandt 350
7 June 2019 - 22 September
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Every Past Is My Past #twentiethcentury #photography #Fortepan
16 April 2019 - 29 September
- 2018
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Venetian Vedute from the Intesa Sanpaolo Art Collection
18 September 2018 - 14 October 2018
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Frida Kahlo. Masterpieces from the Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City
7 July 2018 - 4 November 2018
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Julian Rosefeldt: Manifesto
30 May 2018 - 12 August 2018
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Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures
13 September 2018 - 14 October 2018
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Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures
17 May 2018 - 1 July 2018
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Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures
12 April 2018 - 13 May 2018
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“You’re like the spirit that you understand” – Sandor Liezen-Mayer’s illustrations for Faust
23 March 2018 - 5 August 2018
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Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures
8 March 2018 - 8 April 2018
- 2017
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Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures
14 December 2017 - 11 February 2018
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Within Frames – The art of the sixties in Hungary (1958–1968)
17 November 2017 - 18 February 2018
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Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures
16 November 2017 - 10 December 2017
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“The creative mastermind” – The history of a cult image
19 October 2017 - 18 February 2018
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Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures
5 October 2017 - 12 November 2017
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Péter Korniss – Continuing memories
29 September 2017 - 11 February 2018
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Contemporary reflections on museum sculptures
14 September 2017 - 8 October 2017
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Passion and Irony – Peter Meller and the Graphic Imagination
22 June 2017 - 3 September 2017
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Baselitz – Preview with review
1 April 2017 - 2 July 2017
- 2016
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Shadow on stone – The art of Lili Ország (1926–1978)
17 December 2016 - 1 May 2017
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From Rippl-Rónai to Vajda – Modern Hungarian drawings from the Collection of the art historian György Gombosi (1900–1945)
4 December 2016 - 16 April 2017
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Modigliani
29 June 2016 - 2 October 2016
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Hungarian artists and the computer
24 June 2016 - 18 September 2016
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Perspectives – Art and Ethnography
22 April 2016 - 1 October 2016
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Picasso – Transfigurations, 1895-1972
22 April 2016 - 28 August 2016
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A Revolution in Art – Russian Avant-Garde in the 1910s and 1920s
29 January 2016 - 1 May 2016
- 2015
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The Survivor’s Shadow – The life and works of El Kazovsky
6 November 2015 - 14 February 2016
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Destiny And Symbol – Hungarian Art in Transylvania 1920-1990
24 April 2015 - 23 August 2015
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Fascination of Nature – Paintings by Qi Baishi from the Collection of the Beijing Fine Art Academy
24 April 2015 - 28 June 2015
- 2014
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Rippl-Rónai and Maillol – The story of a friendship
17 December 2014 - 17 May 2015
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Poet, General and Statesman – Miklós Zrínyi (1620-1664)
15 November 2014 - 8 February 2015
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Rainer 85 – Homage to Arnulf Rainer
15 October 2014 - 4 January 2015
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(Film) Experiments brought to life – The first cinema of the Avant-Garde
9 July 2014 - 5 October 2014
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Dada and surrealism – Magritte, Duchamp, Man Ray, Miró, Dalí
9 July 2014 - 19 October 2014
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Rearranged Reality – Creative strategies in Hungarian Art under the spell of Dada and Surrealism
9 July 2014 - 19 October 2014
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Masterpieces returning home – Hungarian posters from the Julius Paul Collection
20 June 2014 - 21 September 2014
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Derkovits – The artist and his times
3 April 2014 - 27 July 2014
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The eighth temple – The art of Endre Bálint
1 February 2014 - 11 May 2014
- 2013
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Gifts and their Donors – New acquisitions of the Hungarian National Gallery – Pictures by János Vaszary
4 December 2013 - 2 February 2014
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Endre Rozsda – Time regained. Retrospective to mark the Centenary of the artist’s birth
19 November 2013 - 2 March 2014
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Chagall – Between war and peace
13 September 2013 - 5 January 2014
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Monet, Gauguin, Szinyei Merse, Rippl-Rónai
28 June 2013 - 24 November 2013
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Impressions on paper 1820-1920
28 June 2013 - 13 October 2013
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Hungarian Art Photography in the New Millennium
11 May 2013 - 28 July 2013
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János Thorma, the painter of the Hungarian Barbizon
8 February 2013 - 5 May 2013
- 2012
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World models – Studio experiments and documents from Kondor to the present day
30 November 2012 - 30 June 2013
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Re-painted reality – An unusual exhibition in the spirit of diversity
14 October 2012 - 9 December 2012
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The way we are – Cartoons and prints of József Faragó (1866-1906)
12 October 2012 - 23 June 2013
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Faster, higher, stronger!
19 July 2012 - 4 November 2012
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Heroes, Kings, Saints – Images and documents from the history of Hungary
3 January 2012 - 2 January 2013
- 2011
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The retrospective exhibition of Károly Ferenczy (1862-1917)
30 November 2011 - 17 June 2012
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Rippl-Rónai – Pieces of art from the hands of old collectors
26 October 2011 - 7 October 2012
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Speaks for Itself – The annual exhibition of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association
16 July 2011 - 4 September 2011
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Károly Markó and his circle – from myth to image
6 May 2011 - 1 November 2011
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Without borders – Contemporary sculpture in Croatia – Hungarian reflections
6 April 2011 - 3 July 2011
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Private labyrinths – Joint exhibition of creators living with autism and contemporary fine artists
3 June 2011 - 18 September 2011
- 2010
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Munkácsy – the Christ Trilogy
23 November 2010 - 16 October 2011
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XIX. Art and Nation: Image and self-image
5 November 2010 - 3 April 2011
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Ropsodies Hongroises – Félicien Rops master of Belgian symbolism
1 October 2010 - 9 January 2011
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György Kovásznai (1934-1983) – A retrospective show
5 June 2010 - 26 September 2010
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Depero, the futurist and the impact of futurism on Avant-garde Art
4 June 2010 - 22 August 2010
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Earthly paradises – Modern masterpieces from the Kasser-Mochary Collection
6 February 2010 - 2 May 2010
- 2009
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Late Baroque impressions – Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724-1796) And Josef Winterhalder (1743-1807)
20 November 2009 - 28 November 2010
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Hungarian Artists in Munich, 1850–1914
1 October 2009 – 10 January 2010
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After 100 Years – The Exhibition of Tamás Lossonczy at the Hungarian National Gallery
12 August 2009 - 13 September, 2009
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József Borsos – Painter and Photographer (1821-1883)
18 June 2009 - 25 October 2009
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The “Művészház” 1909-1914. Modern Exhibitions in Budapest
27 March 2009 - 26 July 2009
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Dialogue in Black and White. Polish and Hungarian prints 1918-1939
13 March 2009 - 28 June 2009
- 2008
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The retrospective of Lajos Vajda (1908–1941)
13 December 2008 – 22 February 2009
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The new refutation of time – Works from the Irokéz Collection, 1988-2008
31 October 2008 - 1 February 2009
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Art from Within: Art Brut in Austria and Hungary
18 September 2008 - 9 November 2008
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Technical detours – The early Moholy-Nagy reconsidered (1916-1923)
25 April 2008- 24 August 2008
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The Legacy of King Matthias – Late Renaissance Art in Hungary
29 March 2008 - 27 July 2008