Lendava-Lendva Gallery and Museum

The Lendava-Lendva Gallery and Museum was established in Lendava Castle in 1972 by the Cultural Community of Lendava. The museum organises the restoration workshop, which takes place yearly under the supervision of the National Museum, Budapest, in order to restore as many museum items as possible in the ten days. The gallery promotes its activity and the local artists and exhibits the artworks in Monošter, Zalaegerszegu, Budapest (Hungary), Ljubljana, Wien; Štefan Galič (1944–1997) was presented almost in all the major Hungarian towns.

History

Since the beginnings the Lendava-Lendva Gallery and Museum was a part of the Cultural Community Lendava. The merit of the establishment goes to Ferenc Király, the sculptor, a long-time director and the winner of the Munkácsy Award in 2005. In 1979 it came under the Institute for Culture Lendava. As an independent public institution it has been active since 1996.

Exhibitions

Museum

The Oloris exhibition occupies the first floor of Lendava Castle and presents the Bronze Age settlement of Oloris near Dolnji Lakoš. It is divided into two main sections: the first section introduces the visitor to the discovery of the settlement and how it was researched, and presents the results of the research. The second section displays material from the interiors of the Oloris dwellings, from the courtyard and fringes of the settlement. The exhibition is further enhanced by a reconstructed Oloris house with a hearth and loom, and a courtyard with oven, well, fence and fields, including stone farming tools.

The historical exhibition The Castle Lies in Wait [Grad na preži] was prepared in cooperation with the Institute and Museum of Military History, Budapest. It informs us about the Turks’ invasions to the territory, about a union of castles which formed so called Military Region. Part of the Region was the Lendava Castle, which Turks never manage to conquer. The exhibition presents the replicas of weapons, equipments of soldiers, the flags and the images of the Lendava, Beltinci, Kaniža, Novi Zrin and Beograd castle at that time.

The numismatic exhibition A Thousand Years of Forging Money in Hungary, donated by the National Museum, Budapest, presents the development of Hungarian currency.

The museum has a rich ethnological collection, of which only a part is exhibited in the left wing on the upper floor of the castle. It presents dwellings, as well as spiritual and aesthetic world of the ancestors of Prekmurje, i.e. painted chests (tulipánoslada), blacksmith bellows, decorative towels, pottery, and religious statues.

The György Zala Memorial Room is dedicated to György Zala (1858–1937), one of Hungary's most eminent neo-Baroque sculptors of the 19th century, who was born in Lendava. György was an excellent portraitist and the author of the monumental sculptures of kings and emperors at Hósök tere (Heroes' Square) in Budapest.

The Štefan Galič Memorial Room is dedicated to Štefan Galič (1944–1997), the academic painter and graphic artist, born in Lendava. Galič was one of the few, who used the woodcutting techniques. The artists’ collection of butterflies is also on display.

The museum manages the dislocated unit in Lendava town, where the exhibition Middle Class, Printing and Umbrella Making in Lendava is on display. The middle class life is illustrated with a work room and a saloon of lawyer family and with pharmacy equipment of the late 19th century. In the next room the development of Lendava printing is presented, from the beginnings in 1573, when the first book was printed in Slovenian territory in Lendava, to the golden age of printing related to Gábor Kardos and Ernő Balkány at the turn from the 19th to the 20th century. The third room presents the umbrella factory Hungária Hazai Ernyőgyár Rt., the first at the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which developed in 1904 from the Béla Wortman dressmaking factory.

Gallery

The collection of the Lendava-Lendva International Artists Colony exhibits work by local and European artists who have participated since 1972 in Lendava-Lendva International Artists Colonies.

The gallery hosts many temporary exhibitions, the art works as a result of the Lendava-Lendva International Artists Colony and the Youth Fine Arts Colony Lind Art. György Ezüst, the head of a similar colony in Budapest, exhibited in 2009. The exhibitions often relate to the Hungarian Area and artists, i.e. the exhibition on Imre Makovecz (1935–), the architect of Lendava Culture House, in 2009.

External links

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History

Exhibitions

Museum

Gallery

See also

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