About the Gallery
SÁROSPATAK ART GALLERY
The original collection of the Sárospatak Art Gallery was founded in 1968 on the initiative of a Hungarian folk art singer called Ferenc Béres.
In the beginning the institution operated in the Rákoczi Castle and it was maintained by the city council.
The collection of the gallery primarily came from donations. Ferenc Béres donated part of his own fine arts collection to the town.
His initiative was followed by lots of artists who also gave smaller or larger gatherings to enrich the collection.
In the 70's two major donations became part of the collection. Joseph Domján,
a Kossuth prize winner woodcut artist donated part of his own works and fine arts collection to the town, and in 1979 János-Andrássy-Kurta,
a sculptor presented his life-scale collection to the gallery.
Both donations resulted in finding new buildings for the collection. The Domján collection was placed into a house owned by a former Sárospatak teacher,
Szinyei Gerzson. The other artist’s life-work was introduced to the public in a former Catholic School within the Castle District.
At that time the gallery was transferred from the castle to the present building (Saint Elizabeth Street 14).
The Art Gallery has been maintained again by the town of Sárospatak since 2013.
The collection represents primarily certain periods of the 20th century Hungarian art and research can be done with permission.
Research service: based on prior appointment.
Translation into English made possible by the English for V4 Countries Heritage Presentation project supported by the Visegrad Fund. Translations by students and a teacher of English of Eszterhazy Károly College, Comenius Faculty Sárospatak.
