Hungarian House of Photography
Earlier Exhibitions


André Kertész Hall,
George Eastman Hall

The Exhibition EXTENDED
to 16th January 2011
Károly Escher
The unknown acquaintance

Curator: Béla Albertini, Photo historian

Open to the public:
22nd October 2010 to 16th January 2011
on Weekdays: 14.00 – 19.00
at Weekends 11.00 – 19.00


I. PICTORAL PHOTOS

1. Male portrait, 1910
oil print, 28,8x22,3 cm Gadányi Collection
2. Female portrait, 1910’s
oil print, 17,3x11,8 cm Gadányi Collection
3. Portrait with mandolin, 1914
oil print , 22,7x17,0 cm Gadányi Collection
4. Erzsébet Kliment, 1916
oil print, 22,3x16,5 cm Gadányi Collection
5. Stefi, 1916
oil print, 16,5x22,7 cm Gadányi Collection
6. József Rippl-Rónai, 1916
oil print, 32,5x29,7 cm Gadányi Collection
7. Female portrait, 1916
oil print, 29,0xcm23,2 cm Gadányi Collection
8. My father, late 1910’s
oil print, 23,5x17,0 cm Gadányi Collection
9. Mária Escher, 1919
oil print, 22,2x16,8 cm Gadányi Collection
10. Mária Escher, c. 1919
oil print, 22,3x12,5 cm Gadányi Collection
11. Man with a hat, 1910’s
oil print, 23,4x17,4 cm Gadányi Collection
12. Mária Escher and Géza Steinhardt, late 1910’s
oil print, 28,5x38,2 cm Gadányi Collection
13. Female portrait, late 1910’s
oil print, 36,3x25,7 cm Gadányi Collection
14. Female portrait with rose, 1920
oil print, 21,6x16,3 cm Gadányi Collection
15. Female portrait, 1920
oil print, 29,0x23,2 cm Gadányi Collection
16. Woman with flowers, 1920
oil print, 22,7x16,3 cm Gadányi Collection

II. SOCIETY, POLITICS

1. Károly Escher: Three-quarter length self-portrait, 1930
gelatin silver print, 76,0x58,0 cm Gadányi Collection
2. Biatorbágy, 1931
gelatin silver print, 60,5x71,5 cm Gadányi Collection
3. Regent Miklós Horthy in the Parliament, 1930’s
gelatin silver print, 23,6x18,0 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
4. Gendarmes in front of the election booth, Tura, 1935
gelatin silver print, 17,9x23,6 cm Hungarian National Museum
5. Cortege to the cortege, 1937
gelatin silver print, 29,7x39,1 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
6. Prince of Windsor and his wife, 1937
gelatin silver print, 29,2x39,2 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
7. Nuns during the procession, 1937
gelatin silver print, 30,0x23,5 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
8. The bank manager taking a swim, 1938/1964
gelatin silver print, 23,7 x17,9 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
9. Count Pál Teleki and Archduke Joseph, 1939–1940
gelatin silver print, 23,5x17,1 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
10–At the Hungarian National Defense Association’s shooting training for women, 1941/2010
gelatin silver print, 16,0x21,2 cm National Széchényi Library
12.11. Burial of Pál Teleki Pál, 1941/2010
gelatin silver print, 18,0x24 and 24,0x18,0 cm National Széchényi Library
13. Prime Minister László Bárdossy gardening at home, 1941/2010
gelatin silver print, 21,5x16,2 cm National Széchényi Library
14. Soldier leaving for the front, 1942/1964
gelatin silver print, 24,0x18, 2 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
15. Burial of Deputy Regent István Horthy, 1942/2010
gelatin silver print, 40,0x30,0 cm National Széchényi Library
16. Book day, 1943/2010
gelatin silver print, 18,0x24,0 cm National Széchényi Library
17–19. Air rade alert, 1943/2010
gelatin silver print, 24,0x18,0 cm National Széchényi Library
20. Ferenc Szálasi by the right of the last word, 1946
gelatin silver print, 18,0x23,6 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
21. Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy and Mátyás Rákosi, General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party at the inauguration of the Soviet heroic memorial at Gellért Hill, 1947
gelatin silver print, 18,0x24,4 cm Hungarian National Museum
22. Homecoming, 1948
gelatin silver print, 23,8x18,0 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
23. Szekler people from Bukovina looking for a new home in Hungary, beginning of the 1940’s/2010
13, 14, 15. kép gelatin silver print, all the three photos 18,0x13,0 cm National Széchényi Library
24. New audience at the Opera House, 1948
gelatin silver print, 18,2x24,0 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
25. First of May, 1949
gelatin silver print, 29,5x40,9 Hungarian Museum of Photography
26. Opening the Chain Bridge, 1949
gelatin silver print, 24,2x17,7 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
27. Gyula Ortutay at the Parliament, 1950‘s
gelatin silver print, 8,0x12,0 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
28. Nursery, 1950’s
gelatin silver print, 24,0x18,2 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography

III DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

1. Slum in the outskirts, 1932/1964
gelatin silver print, 30,0x 40,0 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
2–3. Faces at a night shelter in Budapest, 1932,
gelatin silver print, 23,9x17,3 and 23,8x17,3 cm Hungarian National Museum
4. Scavengers at the Cséry junkyard, 1930’s/1964
gelatin silver print, 18,0x23,2 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
5. After the raid at 5pm, 1934
gelatin silver print, 30,5x39,0 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
6. Paurper II, 1930’s/1964
gelatin silver print, 23,7x17,7 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
7. Night shelter I 1932/1964
gelatin silver print, 30,5x40,0 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
8. Blind musician, 1944/1999
gelatin silver print, 24,0x18,2 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography

IV. GENRE PHOTOGRAPHY, MOODS

1. Winter in Óbuda, 1920’s
gelatin silver print, 15,7x23,3 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
2. Sleet, 1928/1964
gelatin silver print, 39,5x29,2 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
3. Swing-boat, c. 1930/1999
gelatin silver print, 60,3x49,2 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
4. Promenade in spring, 1935
gelatin silver print, 23,7x18,0 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
5. Dallying peasantes, 1935
gelatin silver print, 29,6x39,4 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
6. Loafer / Relax, 1936
gelatin silver print, 17,4x23,2 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
7. Kissing couple, no date
gelatin silver print, 14,7x14,7 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
8. Budapest, Margaret Island, 1938
gelatin silver print, 29,2x39,2 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
9. Murderess at court, 1940’s
gelatin silver print, 17,6x22,3 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
10. Is it always the man to start it? 1943
gelatin silver print 23,8x18,2 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
11. Bach mass in the Franciscan Friary and Church in Buda, before 1945
gelatin silver print, 18,3x24,1 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography

V. THEATERS, ACTRESSES, ACTORS, DANCERS

1. Waltz, c. 1930
gelatin silver print, 16,6x23,2 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
2. Bella Bordy dancer, no date
gelatin silver print, 39,5x29,5 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
3. In the dressing room of the Opera House, 1928–1930/2010
gelatin silver print, 21,5x21,5 cm National Széchényi Library
4. The angel of peace, 1940
gelatin silver print, 39,3x28,7 cm Hungarian Museum of Photography
5–6. Lili Muráti presents new fashion, beginning of the 1940’s /2010
gelatin silver print, 21,3x16,2 cm National Széchényi Library
7–8. Zita Szeleczky – reporting from the cornfield, beginning of the 1940’s/2010
gelatin silver print, 21,3x16,2 cm National Széchényi Library
9. Pál Jávor photographing, beginning of the 1940’s /2010
gelatin silver print, 16,9x21,0 cm National Széchényi Library
10–11. Gizi Bajor in her dressing room, 1943/2010
gelatin silver print, both photos 20,7x15,7 cm National Széchényi Library
12. The miraculous mandarin, 1957
gelatin silver print, 75,0x60,2 cm Gadányi Collection

photo: Nóra Somogyi

 

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