The Art Collection of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts - High School of Visual Arts, Budapest
EVENTS
19 FEBRUARY 2016, 9.00 - 17.00
Törékeny érték: a gipsz a 19-20. századi múzeumi és oktatási gyakorlatban
[Fragile value: plaster casts in the museum and educational practice in the 19th-20th centuries]

A conference organized by the Institute of Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Schola Graphidis Art Collection

Program
Location: Budapest Center of Architecture
H-1052 Budapest, Petőfi Sándor u. 5., HUNGARY
PROFILE
The Schola Graphidis Art Collection conserves, collects, studies and presents all the fine arts works, applied arts works,  and technical objects which can be connected to Hungary’s oldest national art education institution and their successors. The Schola Graphidis Budensis (Buda Drawing School) was founded on the basis of Maria Theresa’s educational decree, the Ratio Educationis (1777) in 1778 by the Buda Chancellery. The collection’s oldest artworks are from the second half of the 18th century, but its reference library specialised in the education of industrial arts (now part of the rare Book Collection) and its collection of plaster casts from the 19th century, as well as the groups of the hundred-year-old bookbinding tools and furniture making tools are also the unique parts of the whole collection.

The collection conserves not only artworks, objects, but historical books, periodicals and archival materials from the 18th–19th centuries as well. The study, the inventory and the publishing of the collection for the public and also for the professionals, have started at the very end of 2014. In 2015, three of the eight collections will be studied, catalogued and published: the Collection of Prints and Drawings, the Rare Book Collection, the Collection of Plaster Casts and Sculptures and the Photographic Collection and Mediatheque. The results can be followed on the website as well.
The Schola Graphidis Art Collection, as part of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, will publish its digitized materials on the europeana.eu website in the framework of the AthenaPlus project.
EXHIBITIONS
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
Schola Graphidis Art Collection | Hungarian University of Fine Arts - High School of Visual Arts
H-1093 Budapest, Török Pál u. 1., HUNGARY | Phone: +36 1 217-6833, +36 1 217-5180; Fax: +36 1 217-5180
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