The Hungarian National Gallery’s chamber exhibition titled The Painter and the Museum presents the art of one of the prominent figures of the avantgarde art movements that emerged in the early 20th century, József Nemes Lampérth, who died one hundred years ago.

József Nemes Lampérth was one of the preeminent figures of the avantgarde art movements that emerged at the beginning of the 20^th century. Although he died tragically young, at the age of thirty-three, and thus his oeuvre is rather modest in size, his importance and influence on his contemporaries and later Hungarian art are indisputable. The exhibition pays tribute to the life and art of the avantgarde painter through the friendly ties he nurtured with the Museum of Fine Arts and the people who worked there.

After József Nemes Lampérth’s death, his memory faded into oblivion for a long time, and few of his works were included in exhibitions, and even then, only very rarely. His name only re-entered the Hungarian art canon in the early 1960s. The first large-scale exhibition featuring his art was held in 1963 at the Hungarian National Gallery, and was followed by several others, with the most recent one presenting a collection of his works at the Kieselbach Gallery in 2016. The greatness of Nemes Lampérth’s art and its far-reaching influence are confirmed by the fact that no comprehensive presentation of modern Hungarian art is organised these days without one or more of his works being included. This chamber exhibition presents a previously unexplored aspect of his oeuvre.

The exhibition is available from 22 November 2024 to 30 March 2025.

Read more: https://en.mng.hu/exhibitions/the-painter-and-the-museum-in-memoriam-jozsef-nemes-lamperth-1891-1924/