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MI-C-I-228
- Title
Art historian Katalin Sinkó’s bequest
- Quantity / Provenance / Document types, inclusive dates
Uninventoried, pre-organized / Manuscripts, photocopies, notes, notebooks, conference programmes, lectures, newspaper clippings, cards, photos, slides
- Description
Katalin Sinkó (1941–2013) was an art historian and museologist, as well as chief curator. Received her diploma in Art History from Eötvös Loránd University in 1974. Worked at the Hungarian National Gallery from 1980, where she became the head of the Department of Documentation. Obtained a doctoral degree in 1982. After the regime change in 1989, she contributed to the development of the concept of national heritage protection in Hungary. Her area of research was art in Hungary in the 19th century, and on the turn of the 20th century. Katalin Sinkó developed the organisation concepts of several grand exhibitions in the Hungarian National Gallery (e.g., Történelem–Kép / History–Image, 2000), and edited their catalogues as well. She also participated in the preparatory works on two volumes of the HAS Institute of Art History’s handbook series A magyarországi művészet története (The history of art in Hungary) on the Hungarian art in the 19th century. Unfortunately, both volumes were only published after her death.
The manuscripts in her bequest were donated to the Archive of the Institute of Art History at the Research Center for Humanities, while the majority of her books were given to the Library of the Faculty of Humanities at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Aside from the material collected by Katalin Sinkó, newspaper clippings, cards and photos, the majority of the fonds contains her manuscripts.
- Description by
Csongor Fehér, Benjámin Ék
