Parliament Building, Budapest
1919-1925
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 4.1 x 2.8 cm (1 5/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation
Accession Number
1999.122.21
Art Historical Context
Behold the majestic *Parliament Building, Budapest*1919-1925), a intimate gelatin silver print by pioneering photographer André Kertész.ured during his early career in his native Hungary, this tiny image—measuring just 4.1 x 2.8 cm—evokes the grandeur of Budapest's iconic Gothic Revival landmark along the Danube. Completed amid the political upheaval following World War I and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, reflects Kertész's ability to distill monumental architecture into a personal, almost pocket-sized memento of home. Kertész, a modernist master who later revolutionized pho...
About the Artist
André Kertész
André Kertész, born Andor Kertész on July 2, 1894, in Budapest, Hungary, to a middle-class Jewish family, initially pursued a conventional path as a clerk at the Budapest Stock Exchange after graduating from the Academy of Commerce in 1912. Self-taught in photography after purchasing his first camera that year, he captured his early poetic visions of Hungarian landscapes and peasant life, includin...