Naturalism 2022 Budapest | Conference

NATURALISM 2022 BUDAPEST
Naturalism in Painting 1870–1905
Conference of the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
16–17 June 2022
Villa Lónyay-Hatvany, Budapest

In Hungarian, French and English language, with simultaneous interpretation in all three languages

PROGRAMME

Concept by:
Eszter Földi, Orsolya Hessky, Réka Krasznai, András Zwickl
Members of the research group Realism and Naturalism in Hungary and Europe, Hungarian National Gallery, a programme supported by the NKFI Funds

 Thursday, 16 June

9.30 Registration

9.50–10.00 Welcoming speeches (György Szücs, Deputy Director for Research, Orsolya Hessky, Senior Curator, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest)

10:00–12:00
Theoretical Questions of Naturalist Painting

Chair: Károly Tóth (Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), Budapest, Deputy Director for Archives and Documentation)

Zsófia Sepsey (Hungarian National Gallery, Art Historian-Museum Educator, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Doctoral School of Literature, PhD student): The Origins and Key Figures of French Literary Naturalism (in Hungarian)

Eszter Földi (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Adjunct Professor): Different Interpretations of Naturalist Painting (in Hungarian)

Orsolya Hessky (Hungarian National Gallery, Senior Curator): The Emergence of Naturalism in Contemporary Press (in Hungarian)

György Szücs (Hungarian National Gallery, Art Historian, Deputy Director for Research): Béla Lázár on Naturalism (in Hungarian)

Agnieszka Kluczewska-Wojcik (Polish Insitute of World Art Studies, Warsaw, Vice President): Painting as a Test of Truth. Stanisław Witkiewicz and debates on Naturalism in Poland (in French)

12:00–13:30 Lunch break

13.30–15.00 Tour in the collections of the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

Coffee break

15.30–17.30
Questions of Technique

Chair: Csilla Csorba (Art Historian)

Éva Somos (Restorer): The Naturalist Painting Technique (in Hungarian)

Ágnes Kovács (Aesthete, Art Historian): Eternal Anachronism or the Phoenix Rising from the Ashes? The Munich Academy and the Teachableness of Arts (in Hungarian)

Alain Bonnet (Université de Bourgogne, Professor): The Academy Struck by Naturalism (in French)

Zsuzsa Farkas (Art Historian): The Effects of Photography on Visual Culture in the Period between 1880–1900 (in Hungarian)

Friday, 17 June

9:00–10:40
Case Studies

Chair: Réka Krasznai (Hungarian National Gallery, Senior Curator)

Dominique Lobstein (Art Historian): The Forming and Spread of Naturalism: The Case of Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (in French, online)

Benjamin Foudral (Musée et Pôle Courbet, Ornans, Curator-Director): The “Little Bastiens” of Belgium: French Naturalism in “Young” Belgium (in French, online)

Marketa Theinhardt (Université Paris IV – Sorbonne, Associate Professor): A Lost Generation? Czech Realist Painters in France (in French, online)

Katarina Benova (Comenius University, Bratislava, Associate Professor): Dominik Skutecký – From Venice to the Copper Mills (in English)

Coffee break

11.00–12.20
The Network of Naturalism

Chair: Enikő Róka (Budapest History Museum, Senior Curator, Head of the Municipal Gallery)

Luca Dsupin (Hungarian National Gallery, Curator): Goupil and His Clients: Munkácsy, Gérôme, Meissonier, Breton, Alma-Tadéma (in Hungarian)

Ferenc Tóth (Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Senior Curator): International Naturalist Tendencies in Exhibitions and Public Collections in Budapest (in Hungarian)

Anna Zsófia Kovács (Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Senior Curator): Jules Bastien-Lepage’s Retrospective Exhibition in 1885 at the École des Beaux-Arts and its Impact in the Artist’s Reception in Europe (in French)

András Zwickl (Hungarian National Gallery, Senior Curator, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Associate Professor): Simon Hollósy and Naturalism (in Hungarian)

12:30–14:00 Lunch break

14.00–15.00
On Hungarian naturalist memorabilia: who do we consider naturalists and why?

Chair: György Szücs (Hungarian National Gallery, Art Historian, Deputy Director for Research)

Gábor Bellák (Hungarian National Gallery, Senior Curator): Facing Reality – Naturalist Examples (in Hungarian)

Adrienn Prágai (Hungarian National Gallery, Curator): Genres, Themes, Groups – Typification Experiments in the Naturalist Paintings of the Hungarian National Gallery (in Hungarian)

Correferation: Réka Krasznai (Hungarian National Gallery, Senior Curator): The Appearance of Hungarian Naturalist Painting at Representative Exhibitions Abroad at the Turn of the Century (in Hungarian)

Coffee break

15.30–17.30
Discussion and conclusions

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NKFI Fund Programme

The co-organizer of the conference is the Batthyány Lajos Foundation.