Latest Publications
The publications of the Ferenc Hopp Asian Art Museum published in recent years are available in Hungarian and English and can be purchased in the Museumshop.
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Land of Buddhas – Gandhāra. Catalogue of the Gandhāran Sculptures of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic ArtsThe Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts, Budapest, holds eighty-one Gandhāran statues. Exquisite Buddha and bodhisattva statues are included in this collection, which comprise a representative group of this unique Hellenistic style Buddhist school of sculpture. Almost the entire collection was gifted to the institution by Imre Schwaiger, a Hungarian-born, internationally acclaimed art dealer and connoisseur in the first half of the twentieth century. Although the most outstanding statues have been exhibited at the museum since they arrived, the first occasion when the entire collection was put on display took place only this year, in 2024, when the temporary exhibition Land of Buddhas. Gandhāra opened its doors to the visitors. Accompanying the exhibition, for the very first time, a comprehensive catalogue of all the artworks of the Gandhāran collection, illustrated with fresh and artistic photographs, is published. The catalogue includes the description of each Gandhāran sculpture in the collection, which is complemented by a study on conservation of the statues written by Zoltán Hering, stone conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, who handled the statues and conducted material analyses. A detailed study on the life of Imre Schwaiger is also placed in the present volume to give an account of this generous art expert and his interesting life, starting out from Hungary and building a successful art dealership in India and in London. ISBN: 978-615-81396-7-0 |
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The Garden. The Oriental-Style Garden of Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts on its CentenaryIn György Klösz's photo taken in the early 1880s, one can already see the two-storey villa built in the so-called Italian style under 103 Sugárút (today Andrássy út), housing today the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts. The commissioner and first occupant of the buiding was a merchant, József Knorr and his family. They lived here for seven years, then sold it to Ferenc Hopp, a respected businessman who completed his first trip around the world not long before, and who moved here from his apartment on the Grand Boulevard as more and more space needed for his ever-expanding collection. In the first years in his new home, Hopp made little alterations little on the house itself, but transformed his garden into one of the most magical sights of Budapest. On his first tour around of the globe, Hopp had visited the famous botanical garden in Buitenzorg (now Bogor), then a Dutch colonial city on West Java. The experience moved him so deeply that he decided to create similar surroundings of his own in Budapest. The Dutch name Buitenzorg can be loosely translated as ’without worries’, and as his own home and garden were intended to drive away troubles, Hopp named the villa “Buitenzorg Residence”. He filled the garden with exotic plants and with curious objects he had collected on his travels, much to the amazement of his contemporaries. The volume you are holding in your hands is intended to commemorate this ”worryless” garden by presenting its history, a description of the flowers, architectural features and landscaping elements it contained, and photos taken in it and of it ISBN 978-615-81396-5-6 |
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Moon above the Clouds. The Life of Bishop Count Péter Vay and his Japanese Art CollectionCount Péter Vay (1863–1948) led an extraordinary life, even by the standards of his time. He was raised in a Protestant family, studied at numerous universities, then entered the diplomatic service of the Roman Catholic Church. His work was performed in his capacity as protonotary apostolic, and he was made a bishop. Commissioned by the pope, he spent many years visiting Catholic missions (schools, orphanages, and hospitals) throughout the world. His travels took him to the United States, Asia, Australia, and Europe. He was particularly attentive to the needs of the many impoverished emigrants who had been forced to abandon their homelands, his main objectives being to provide them with pastoral care, establish pastoral centres for migrant labourers, and help them adjust to life in their new home. Editor: Györgyi Fajcsák
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Yurts and Monasteries. Mongolian Treasures at the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic ArtsIn the volume published in connection with the exhibition, the chapters on Mongolian material cultural artefacts in Hungary are divided into four main thematic sections. The four chapters that make up the first thematic section cover the history of the intellectual and material heritage of academic and diplomatic relations between Hungary and Mongolia. ISBN 978-615-5987-77-9 |
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Enchanting Bali. The Journey of Gill Marais and Ilona Zboray through the Secrets of BaliThe present publication brings together these two women travellers, embracing a period of almost hundred years. Two women closely bound by the continuity of the themes they immortalised. Ilona Zboray and Gill Marais travelled to Bali and conveyed their experiences under entirely different circumstances, but what they have in common is the fact they were largely documenting exactly the same themes. Ilona Zboray through her writing, and Gill Marais through her photographs. In the exhibition Trance / Dance / Bali, visitors are confronted with a different aspect of Bali, this earthly Eden popularly known as a tourist paradise — they are brought face to face with everyday life and mortality, ceremonies, the powers of evil, and the struggle against demons. The descriptions penned by Ilona Zboray and the photographs taken by Gill Marais draw us into the unique culture and unparalleled beauty of Bali through the medium of images and words. ISBN: 978-615-5987-53-3 |
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Japonisme in the Austro-Hungarian MonarchyThe volume Japonisme in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was dedicated to the celebration of the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and the countries which used to belong to Austria-Hungary, conducted by the Museum of Fine Arts – Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts in Budapest. Representatives of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Japan signed the Treaty of Navigation, Commerce and Friendship in Tokyo on 18 October 1869, which had an impact on international policy between the parties, facilitated the development of trade and enhanced cultural transfer.
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The Art of Asia. The Centenary of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic ArtsThis publication is a gap-filling reference book about the history of the Hopp Museum’s collections and the descriptions of its most prominent artefacts. The book is available both in English and in Hungarian. The Art of Asia catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition titled Made in Asia. The Centenary of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts. ISBN 9786155987076 |
