László Baán
László Baán | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 18, 1961 |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Occupation(s) | Economist, museum curator |
László Baán (born 18 July 1961 in Budapest) is a Hungarian economist and museum curator.
Baán has been Director General of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest since 2004 and since 2011 has also been director of a new national collection of buildings at the museum.[1]
Education and career
Baán graduated in Economics and Science in Budapest. Between 1998 and 2004 he served as secretary of state of the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage.[2]
In 2004, he was appointed him as Director General of the Museum of Fine Arts.[2][3] In 2007, the Van Gogh exhibition was the 15th most popular exhibition in 2010 in its category, with a total of 231,000 visitors in the world's seventh most visited exhibition in 2010, according to The Art Newspaper. The institution has been among the 100 most visited museums in the world several times in recent years.[4] In October 2007, the Museum of Fine Arts Museum launched a museological journal called Café,[5] which became the magazine of the year in 2009[6] and won the third prize in the European Design Awards in 2011.[7]
Under his leadership, an underground expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts was planned.[8] The museum has submitted a successful EU grant application for the nearly four billion forints investment. The public procurement application was planned for the construction in early 2011, but the investment was stopped by the government in February 2011.[9]
In 2012, he was appointed as Director of the National Gallery of Hungary due to the unification with the Museum of Fine Arts.[2]
He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.[10]
Controversies
As Director General of the Museum of Fine Arts, he made the museum for free in 2007 for Árpád Habony's wedding, at which he was the witness.[11]
In the early 2010s, the Museum of Fine Arts borrowed ten valuable antique paintings to a Serbian street apartment, which was linked to Árpád Habony.[12][13]
Awards
In 2011, the French Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand awarded Baán with the knightly degree of art and literary order of the French Republic. In 2017, he was awarded the Knights of Honor for his work on the development of cultural relations between France and Hungary.[14][15]
References
- ^ "A kormány továbbra is számít Baán Lászlóra és Ókovács Szilveszterre" (in Hungarian). Index.hu. 28 July 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
- ^ a b c "Laszlo BAAN - Hay Festival". www.hayfestival.com. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ^ "The Museum Builder". MúzeumCafé. 2018-01-16. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ^ "Nemzetközi toplistára került a Szépművészeti egyik kiállítása". ORIGO (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ^ "Múzeum Café". Litera – az irodalmi portál (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ^ "Népszabadság - A MúzeumCafé lett az Év Magazinja". web.archive.org. 2009-12-02. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ^ "hg.hu Blog - Európai designdíj a MúzeumCafénak". web.archive.org. 2011-12-02. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ^ "Építészet - Mégis üvegkocka: a Szépművészeti legújabb tervei | hg.hu". web.archive.org. 2012-04-30. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ^ "A kormány lefújta a Szépművészeti bővítését". Népszabadság. Archived from the original on 2011-02-07. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ^ "Members". members.euro-acad.eu. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ^ "Baán nem mond le Habony miatt". Népszava (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ^ Márton, Bede (2016-02-09). "Tényleg egy Habony Árpádhoz köthető lakásban lógtak a Szépművészetiből kölcsönzött képek". 444 (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ^ "A Szépművészeti Múzeum tíz értékes antik festményt kölcsönzött ki a Szerb utca 9-be". atlatszo.hu (in Hungarian). 2016-02-09. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ^ "A francia Becsületrend lovagi fokozatával tüntették ki Baán Lászlót | MNG". web.archive.org. 2017-10-08. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ^ "The director of the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts decorated with the French Legion of Honour - DailyNewsHungary". dailynewshungary.com. 2017-09-28. Retrieved 2025-04-07.