Art Nouveau on Paper

In 2020, the Museum of Applied Arts, together with its partner institutions, were jointly awarded the international tender for the Danube Transnational Programme Strengthening the cultural identity of the Danube region by building on common heritage of ART NOUVEAU. The project ran with their participation between 2020 and 2022. One section of the project was the creation of an online catalogue of paper-based sources concerning Art Nouveau. Staff of the Museum of Applied Arts researched 158 sources of Hungarian and international relevance from the Museum’s Archive and Library, previously not published online. These are presented in their historical-cultural context, grouped into galleries for designers, places of manufacture, turn-of-the-century Hungarian exhibitions and international exhibitions with Hungarian participation. The Museum aims to expand the galleries in future.

The list of items was compiled, and the artworks were provided with metadata, by Dr Hilda Horváth, Dr Ágnes Prékopa, Jessica Fehérvári, Zsófia Hutvágner and Eszter Marosi.

Technical aspects: Judit Király, Zita Nagy, Zoltán Szalontai, Sarolta Sztankovics, Katalin Varga