Zsuzsa Urbach at the Piliscsaba campus, 2003 (Photo by János Jernyei Kiss) It is with great sadness that I report the passing of art historian Zsuzsa (Susan) Urbach, Hungary’s foremost scholar of Early Netherlandish Painting. She was 87 years old. She studied art history and archaeology at Eötvös Loránd University in […]
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In memoriam László Beke (1944-2022)
László Beke (1944-2022) On January 31, 2022, art historian László Beke passed away in Budapest. He was 78 years old. He was one of the most well-known figures of Hungarian art history in recent decades and he was primarily known for his research of 20th-century art. As chief curator of […]
In memoriam Ernő Marosi (1940–2021)
Ernő Marosi in 2017 Ernő Marosi (1940–2021), professor emeritus at the Institute of Art History of ELTE and a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, died on July 9, 2021, at the age of 81. With his death, we lost one of the most important Hungarian art historians […]