The Musée d'Orsay will open Allegro Barbaro (La force du modernism hongrois), a show that puts Hungarian modernist painting into a broader context that includes literature and music, in the autumn of 2013.
László Baán, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, said it was hoped French President Francois Hollande would be the other chief patron of the exhibition. He added that the scale of the exhibitions of Hungarian art at an institution with such a high reputation was unprecedented.
Áder met with Baán during visits to the Hungarian National Gallery and the National Széchényi Library - both a short walk from the presidential palace - on Wednesday.
The president also met with Hungarian National Gallery director György Szücs and with National Széchényi Library head Andrea Sajó.
Baán, who is government commission in charge of a planned museum quarter to be built around 56-ers Square by 2017-18, briefed the president on the current state of the project.
Sajó discussed plans to establish a permanent exhibition of volumes from the library of King Matthias, Hungary?s ?Renaissance king?, in 2013.
The Hungarian National Gallery will soon merge with the Museum of Fine Arts.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: MTI
