More than one hundred and seventy thousand people were curious about the Csontváry exhibition, so the exhibition was among the ten most visited exhibitions in the institution's history.
Due to the great interest, the exhibition, which is open until Sunday, is open to visitors on Mondays, and on the last weekend, thanks to the extended opening hours, the institution opens its doors one hour earlier, at 9:00 a.m., and the popular exhibition closes at 9:00 p.m.
The Museum of Fine Arts recalls in a statement that the Museum of Fine Arts - Hungarian National Gallery and the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs are celebrating the painter Kosztka Tivadar Csontváry (1853-1919), who was born 170 years ago, with a joint exhibition.
An exhibition compiled from the materials of two public collections that hold the most important works of the painting genius opened as part of the Bartók Spring International Art Weeks at the Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition, which features forty-five works, is a tribute to one of the most original and well-known artists in the history of Hungarian painting.
Thanks to the combined collection of the two institutions, the exhibition also includes Csontváry's famous Self-Portrait and Lonely Cedar, the ruins of the large Greek theater in Taormina and his painting The Great Tarpaths in the Tatras, as well as his works Pilgrimage to the Cedars in Lebanon and Jajcei Waterfall.
The exhibition presenting forty-five works - including the almost thirty-square-meter Baalbek and the other giant paintings - provides a complete picture of the main themes, motifs and life of Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry.
MTI
