The exhibition, under preparation for three years, will include around 200 of Vaszvary's most important works from Hungarian and foreign collections. The works show his realist and post-expressionist periods as well as pictures he painted of soldiers during World War I.
The last retrospective of Vaszvary's works was held at the National Gallery in 1960, Bereczky said.
After the Vaszary exhibition, the National Gallery plans to showcase the work of Mihály Zichy (1837-1906) with nearly 100 paintings to be loaned by the Hermitage in St Petersburg in addition to works from public and private collections in Hungary, Bereczky said.
The exhibitions are part of the National Gallery's 50th anniversary programme.
For next year, the National Gallery plans an exhibition of Late Renaissance works to celebrate the Hungarian Renaissance Year, which marks the 550th anniversary of the crowning of King Mathias, Bereczky said.
The Hungarian National Gallery opened on May 23, 1957 in the building which currently houses the Museum of Ethnography on Kossuth Square. The institution, established to show the works of Hungarian artists, based its collection on modern sculpture and graphic works as well as coins from the Museum of Fine Arts' New Hungarian Collection.
The National Gallery moved to its present location, in the Buda Palace, in 1973. Its collection was also expanded with works from the Museum of Fine Arts' Old Hungarian Collection, which covered the period from the 11th century until the present. Pieces from the collection, which included Gothic paintings and wooden statues, as well as works from the Late Renaissance and Baroque periods, were put on public display at the National Gallery in 1979.
Three years later, in the palace's former throne room, a permanent exhibition of Late Gothic altars and Medieval and Renaissance stonework opened, and in 1989, the Habsburg crypt, on the ground floor of the palace's "C" building, was opened to the public.
Two years ago, the National Gallery expanded its exhibition space in the "A" building of the palace after its former occupant, the Ludwig Museum, moved across the Danube to the Palace of Arts.
