André Kertész retrospective

André Kertész (1894-1985) is today famous for his extraordinary contribution to the language of photography in the 20th century.

The Hungarian National Museum organizes a retrospective, which travels after Winterthur and Berlin to Budapest, marshals a large number of prints and original documents that highlight the exceptional creative acuity of this photographer, from his beginnings in Hungary, his homeland, to Paris, where between 1925 and 1936 he was one of the leading figures in avant-garde photography, to New York, where he lived for nearly fifty years without encountering the success that he expected and deserved.

The exhibition pays tribute to a photographer whom Cartier-Bresson regarded as one of his masters, and reveals, despite an apparent diversity of periods and situations, themes and styles, the coherence of Kertész's approach.

This first hungarian retrospective of his work will bring together a sizeable ensemble of prints and original documents covering the different periods of Kertész's artistic career. The show reveals how Kertész developed a genuine poetics of photography -what he himself called "a real photographic language".

Date: until December 31.
Location: The Hungarian National Museum, 1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 14-16. Hungary.
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm.