Munkácsy exhibition opens at Móra Ferenc Museum Szeged
A significant Munkácsy exhibition opens in the Móra Ferenc Museum in Szeged this weekend.
The annual main exhibition of the Móra Ferenc Museum opens on Friday, June 21 – one day before the 2024 Night of Museums. This year, the museum is preparing a large-scale Munkácsy exhibition, more than eighty paintings and other artworks will be on display. The backbone of the exhibition is Imre Pákh's collection. Since it is a private collection, it can be seen much less frequently than the paintings in public institutions.
Note that the language of the opening ceremony, starting at 11:00 on Friday, is Hungarian.
Two large Munkácsy "Hungarian conquest" sketches, from Móra Museum's own collection returned from Békéscsaba yesterday to be featured in the exhibition. A rider and his horse, reminiscent of the Hungarian leader Árpád from Munkácsy's famous painting, awaited the truck arriving with a precious cargo worth more than three billion forints during a press event held in front of the Móra Museum.
The previous exhibitions featured mainly archaeological findings, which is why they decided to prepare a fine art exhibition for this year, museum director Ottó Fogas said at a previous press event, adding that this will be the country's largest Munkácsy exhibition to date. The Munkácsy painting titled Maid (Felszolgálólány), an important piece of the Móra Museum's collection, has been restored and will also be presented at the exhibition.
Mihály Munkácsy, one of the best-known Hungarian painters of the 19th century, earned an international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings. His paintings can be found all over the world, both in public and private collections.
The exhibition titled Munkácsy, the painting genius can be visited until November 17, 2024.
Photos: Szilvia Molnar / Szegedify
