Two Centuries of Hungarian Painters: 1820-1970 : A Catalogue of the Nicolas Salgo Collection Book

This beautiful art book is the first catalogue published in English of 19th and 20th Century Hungarian paintings, drawings, and prints by the leading Hungarian artists of that period. As the history of Hungarian art unfolds, the revolutionary cultural and political histories of the country itself is opened to the viewer. Nicolas Salgo, the leading American collector whose appreciation of the arts of his native land has been with him since childhood, began seriously to acquire works of Hungarian painters during his tenure as Ambassador of the United States in Budapest. The Introduction by Steven Mansbach discusses styles, periods, and groups, and how they have been influenced by Hungary's raging politics through the Post-Communist Revolution of 1990. Mansbach, an art historian at the Free University of Berlin, provides a biography of each artist as well as references for and provenances of every work. Every reader who visits Hungary through this portfolio will learn of the special qualities-dynamic forms, vivid colors, strong emotionality-of Hungarian painting.