Krisztina Passuth
Krisztina Passuth (born April 27, 1937 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian art historian.
Life
Krisztina Passuth's father, László Passuth, was a bank clerk and published his first of a large number of historical novels in 1937. Krisztina studied history and art history in the communist People's Republic of Hungary from 1956 at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). From 1962 she was employed as a curator's assistant at the Hungarian National Gallery and in 1966 she moved to the Szépművészeti Múzeum as curator , where she headed and redesigned the department of modernism. In 1977 she emigrated to France, where she found work at the Center Georges Pompidou and as an assistant curator at the 1978 Paris-Berlin exhibitionand in 1979 participated in the Paris-Moscou exhibition . She then worked as a curator at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris and in the meantime received her doctorate in 1987 at the Sorbonne . She gained a reputation in the international exhibition scene through her knowledge of the pan-European cross connections within the avant-garde art of the 20th century. After the political change in Eastern Europe, she returned to Hungary in 1992 and was professor of art history at ELTE from 1993 to 2007.
She was awarded the Németh Lajos-díj in Hungary in 2001 and the Széchenyi-díj in 2010.
Fonts (selection)
- Monographs and Articles
- Geometric shapes in Hungarian modern painting . In: Agnes Husslein-Arco / Alexander Klee (eds.): Cubism, Constructivism, Formkunst , Vienna 2016
- Lajos Tihanyi . From the Hungarian by Hermin Lehmann. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1977 ( DNB 780379543 ).
- Márffy Ödön . Budapest: Corvina, 1978
- with Dénes Pataky: Art of the 20th Century: Museum of Fine Arts Budapest . Budapest: Corvina Kiadó, 1978.
- Moholy-Nagy . Budapest: Corvina 1982 (from the Hungarian by Heribert Thierry, Weingarten 1986)
- Krisztina Passuth: Berlin - the center of art in Eastern Europe . In: Paris, Berlin, 1900–1933, Matches and Opposites France-Germany. Art, architecture, graphics, literature, industrial design, film, theater, music . Prestel Munich 1979, pp. 222-230, ISBN 3-7913-0466-6 .
- Krisztina Passuth: Berlin , in: Timothy O. Benson; Dorothée Brill: Avant-garde in Central Europe 1910 - 1930: Transformation and exchange . Munich: Haus der Kunst 2003, pp. 79–84
- Krisztina Passuth: Why is "Der Sturm" so important for Czech and Hungarian artists? . In: Andrea von Hülsen-Esch and Gerhard Finckh (eds.): The storm: essays . Wuppertal: Von-der-Heydt-Museum, 2012 ISBN 978-3-89202-082-0 pp. 483–496
- Meeting places of the avant-garde East Central Europe 1907 - 1930 . From the Hungarian: Anikó Harmath. Budapest: Balassi 1998, German 2003 review
- Exhibitions and catalogs
- A Nyolcak festészete . Budapest 1967, ISBN 978-963-329-032-3 .
- Les Avant-Gardes de l'Europe Centrale 1907–1927. Paris 1988, ISBN 2-08-012034-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Krisztina Passuth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Krisztina Passuth in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Krisztina Passuth , short vita at Artportal
- Krisztina Passuth , writings at SPK
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hellmut Lorenz : In the footsteps of the avant-garde , at FU Berlin
- ↑ Short vita at Der Sturm: Center of the Avantgarde. 2. Essays . Wuppertal: Von-der-Heydt-Museum 2012, p. 573
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Passuth, Krisztina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |