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<\/p>\nThe basis of the MODEM\u2019s material is provided by the Antal\u2012Lusztig Collection. The collection that consists more than 4500 items was established by S\u00e1muel Lusztig, the grandfather of P\u00e9ter Antal who began purchasing contemporary works of art of his age in the 1920s.<\/p>\n
The works had lost during the WWII, therefore, the merchant from Derecske started enriching his collection again, following the Holocaust. Carrying on the work initiated by his grandfather, and continuously enlarging the corpus, P\u00e9ter Antal has established one of the biggest and most significant modern and contemporary art collection in Hungary in the past few decades.<\/p>\n
The MODEM undertook to present his collection to the public in parts; hence each year the institution organizes exhibitions from the collection, focusing on the oeuvre of a particular artist or on a specific subject matter.<\/p>\n
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In the beginning P\u00e9ter Antal had carried on collecting in the spirit of his grandfather, but at the age of 17 he went his own way and mainly sought for the representatives of the Hungarian progressive art.<\/p>\n
He principally purchased the contemporary works of art from the studios, however, he often received paintings or entire estates as gift due to his good relationships and friendships with others. In the last decades, he simultaneously bought modern and contemporary works, but his focus is getting on the latter ones.<\/p>\n
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The development of the 20th<\/sup> century Hungarian visual art can be traced in the imposing Antal\u2012Lusztig Collection. The range that is embraced by the collection provides an insight view of the art of P\u00e1l Szinyei Merse, Csontv\u00e1ry, Gul\u00e1csy, K\u00e1roly Ferenczy or Margit Anna, Imre \u00c1mos and Lili Orsz\u00e1g as well as contemporary visual artists such as Bal\u00e1zs Kicsiny and Hajnal N\u00e9meth.<\/p>\n It contains panel paintings, individual graphics, sculptures, and exciting installations from more than 300 Hungarian artists. The collection focuses on The Eight and the Activists (including the pictures of K\u00e1roly Kernstok, Dezs\u0151 Czig\u00e1ny, Bertalan P\u00f3r, Lajos Tihanyi, and \u00d6d\u00f6n M\u00e1rffy), the Szentendre School (including the works of Imre \u00c1mos, Margit Anna, Endre B\u00e1lint, Dezs\u0151 Korniss), and the European School (including the works of Endre B\u00e1lint, Lajos Kass\u00e1k, J\u00f3zsef Egry, Dezs\u0151 Bokros Birman, Lili Orsz\u00e1g).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"