Avantgarde in private collections I.

In the field of historical modernism and classical avant-garde, the Budapest collection of Ferenc Kiss is considered as one of the most significant privately-owned collections.

The peculiarity of the collection is that it contains the widest range of documents of modern art from the period between the 1910s and the 1940s. The Kassák Museum has also chosen to present the Ferenc Kiss collection because it unfolds the rich intellectual milieu and the diverse relationships that meant a life-giving medium for the activity of Kassák.

The contemporary Hungarian and international periodicals, the original reproductions published in MA (Today), the letters, books, posters and invitations represent and expand, as a living description of a period, the possibility to display the epochal significance of Kassák and to reinterpret the classical modern Hungarian art.