An exhibition of paintings by the Hungarian Lajos Vajda, who died at a young age, will open at the city's Museum of Fine Arts on October 16. Hungary's National Gallery introduced Vajda, who has been compared to Klee, Ernst, Picabia and Miro, to a broader public at a show last year, and the painter's work was exhibited in Washington this year.
Vajda collected Hungarian and Slavic folk motifs during his travels in the countryside in the 1930s, much as the composers Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály collected folk music.
A catalogue of the exhibition, in English and Dutch, has been published by the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Brussels.
The exhibition will run until January 17.
The Hungarian world music group Mitsoura will play at the famous Antwerp club Zuiderpershuis on October 21, following a sold-out show at the Bozar Art Centre in Brussels.
Also in October, the prestigious Antwerp bookseller De Groene Waterman will host the husband-and-wife writers György Dragomán and Anna T. Szabó. Dragomán's novel The White King, set in Romania under Ceausescu, has been translated into more than 20 languages since it was published in 2005.
