The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest presents Bosch’s, Matisse’s, and El Greco’s artworks throughout this year. The success of last year’s exhibitions (Pre-Raphaelites, Gerhardt Richter, Cezanne to Malevich) will now be followed by other outstanding exhibitions.
Hieronymus Bosch: Last Judgement (middle panel), c. 1515
Bruges, Groeningemuseum © 2020. Album/Scala, Florence https://www.mfab.hu/
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) is an icon of the Early Netherlandish Painting school. Bosch explores the themes of humanity, such as “the choice between virtue and vice, questions of faith and truth, the unharnessed experience and harnessing of desire, and the spirituality of human existence”. His paintings are often characterized as authentic and covered by mystery. The MFAB (Museum of Fine Arts Budapest) will display almost ninety Bosch’s works, including ten autograph panels. This exhibition dives into Bosch’s world in the late Middle Ages that portrays human life as an earthly pilgrimage, sinful mazes, and the spiritual footholds. Between Hell and Paradise: The Enigmatic World of Hieronymus Bosch is on view from 9 April – to 17 July 2022 at the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Hungary.
Henri Matisse: Interior in Yellow and Blue, 1946, Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée national d’art moderne – Centre de création industrielle © Succession H. Matisse / HUNGART 2022 https://www.mfab.hu/
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a french artist who is known as the greatest colorist of the 20th century. Henri Matisse: Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou in Paris will exhibit more than one hundred works arranged into eight chronological-thematic sections. It ranges from the artist’s early compositions to his paper cutouts from the 1950s. Matisse’s works explore the issue of “the relationship between line and color, and connections between interiors and figures”. The exhibition also highlights various media of Matisse’s works, such as original graphic sheets, prints (especially Matisse’s books and cover designs), and sculptures. This exhibition also will show Matisse’s monumental design for the stained glass windows of the Dominican Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence. Henri Matisse: Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou in Paris will be on display from 1 July to 30 October 2022 at the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest.
El Greco: Laokoön, 1610–1614. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection. © Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. https://www.mfab.hu/2022-bosch-matisse-and-el-greco/
El Greco (1541-1614) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. The MFAB will present the oeuvre of El Greco and dig into the environment and influence that have impacted the artist’s works, such as his place of life, study, and work, as well as the influence of Italian masters teachings and the models he adopted. The exhibition will display more than eighty pieces, including forty autograph masterpieces, both from the MFAB’s own collection and loans from the world’s most prestigious public collections, such as the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the National Gallery in London and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. El Greco will be on view from 27 October 2022 to 19 February 2023 at the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest.
All of these exhibitions show high-quality programmes that represents the diversity of European arts. Don’t miss it when you visit Hungary this year!
Source and further information: https://www.mfab.hu/2022-bosch-matisse-and-el-greco/