Gulácsy: The Prince of Na'conxypan

The retrospective exhibition of Lajos Gul塶sy, one of the most unique figures of twentieth-century Hungarian art, opens in the National Gallery from 6 April 2023. The large-scale show of some two hundred works, including eighty-four paintings, reveals the diversity of Gul塶sy's profound art by highlighting new contexts. Besides the many well-known masterpieces, visitors can view several recently identified works. His paintings, drawings, and illustrations are complemented by Gul塶sy's manuscripts, photographs taken of him and characteristic works by his contemporaries. The exhibition presents the many colours of Gul塶sy's oeuvre arranged in several sections, its connections with the art of the past and the present, and with his contemporaries. Gul塶sy's self-portraits, his home, Italy, and the artistic periods he evoked are shown in separate chapters, and so are his theatrical and literary connections, his illustrations, his drawings of Na'Conxypan, as well as the last period of his oeuvre with images of war that convey with dramatic force the artist's ever-gloomier state of mind. GUL磷SY. The Prince of Na'Conxypan. The Art of Lajos Gul塶sy (1882-1932), Hungarian National Gallery, 7 April - 27 August 2024 "