Collection of Szépmüvészeti Museum


The largest fine arts museum of Hungary, Szépmüvészeti Museum, or Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, is in Heroes’ Square facing the Palace of Art.  Founded in 1896 and opened in 1906, the museum houses one of the most important collections of European art from Antiquity to present day. 

The collections include, Egyptian Collection, Classical Antiquities, Old Masters' Gallery, Old Sculptures Collection, Prints and Drawings, and the Collection of Modern Art, after 1800, as well as world-famous works by da Vinci, Raphael, DeBCrer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, El Greco, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Monet, Cezanne, Picasso, Schiele, Kokoschka, Abakanowicz, and Kabakov.


1884 Parsonage Garden Drawing Parsonage-Garden
1885 Interior with Peasant Woman Sewing Drawing Interior-with-Peasant-Woman-Sewing
1888 Haystacks near a Farm Drawing Haystacks-near-a-Farm





Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre View of The Hague with the New Church
Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre View of The Hague with the New Church
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures."