Description
Art historian Tamás Bogyay (1909–1994) received his diploma from Pázmány Péter University (the predecessor of Eötvös Loránd University) in 1932, as a member of the Eötvös József College. Later he went on scholarships to the Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin and the Hungarian Academy in Rome. In early 1945, he travelled with his wife to Bavaria, as one of the people to accompany a shipment of artworks from the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. Moving to Munich in 1952, he was an associate of Radio Free Europe between 1952–1974, under the pseudonym Ákos Kőszegi. One of the founders of the Hungarian Institute in Munich in 1962, as well as its first chairman. He kept in touch with Hungarian art historians and friends, until he was finally able to visit Hungary in 1985, having been invited by the Research Group for Art History at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1990, he received an honorary doctorate from Eötvös Loránd University. His main interests were the Middle Ages, medieval art, and the aspects of the Holy Crown of Hungary in the history of art and science.
The fonds contains the material of Bogyay’s medieval research, as well as the material of the 1945 shipment of artworks. Research material, notes, correspondence, cards, studies, drawings, post cards, journals, prints and Bogyay’s articles and typescripts – all arranged in boxes.
