Hungarica [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION This volume contains a catalogue of the English books and various other items relating to Hungary, which the Hungarian historian Béla Iványi-Grünwald collected in the last twenty odd years of his life in England. It was not long before his sudden death that he had decided to make an annotated catalogue of his collection with my assistance and only ill-health prevented him doing so. The late Iványi-Grünwald spoke about his plans in detail in a New Year's interview with the Hungarian Radio Szülőföldünk, only a few weeks before his death. By compiling this catalogue, althought with less scholarship and expertise, it is felt that the record of his collection in the present form might serve on one hand as the fulfilment of one of his last wishes, and on the other, as a modest tribute to a man of great learning. The late Béla Iványi-Grünwald was born on March 2nd, 1902 at Nagybánya, Hungary (Now Baia Mare in Romania), where his father, a co-founder of the Nagybánya Artists' Colony had settled around 1896. The diversity of views of the artists of this colony inevitably led to a clash between the leading spirits of what is today known as the Nagybánya School of Hungarian painting, and Iványi-Grünwald senior moved on with his family and followers to Kecskemét in 1909, and there established a new artists' colony, of which he was the head from 1911 to 1918. Young Béla spent his childhood and schoolboy days in an atmosphere of intellectual ferment, surrounded by extraordinary characters, all hotly debating revolutionary ideas in art, international artistic trends and new techniques, mingled with the political issues of the day, personal problems and general gossip. Arguments about petty issues, grand dinners, creditors, bankruptcies, spectacular successes, failures, jealousies/ and ever changing patterns of friendships were all part of the bohemian daily 'routine' of the colony during the first years of this century. And all this against the background of the grand, barbaric 7