The Museum of Fine Arts celebrates the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Hungary with an exhibition that focuses on the influence of Japanese woodcuts on the West, and primarily, on artists in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
Organised by the Museum of Fine Arts, the Hungarian National Gallery, the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts and the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, some seventy artworks will be displayed, comprising Japanese woodcuts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that served as inspiration for European artists, and prints from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy conceived in the spirit of Japonisme.
The Japanese works will be on display together with the finest woodcuts found in Hungarian collections that were influenced by Japonisme. Works by Hokusai, Hiroshige and many other Japanese masters can be seen alongside colourful prints by Lucien Pissarro, William Nicholson, Emil Orlik, Carl Theodor Thiemann, Carl Moll, Viktor Olgyai, Gyula Tichy, Lajos Kozma and others.
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