Music: Katalin Császár, teacher at Plugor Sándor Art High School and her student Krisztina Ivanitzki
Images of the homeland
Northern Transylvania in the photographs of Ernő Weinstock between 1940 and 1944
The exhibition focuses on photographs taken by Ernő Weinstock between 1940 and 1944, during the so-called “Little Hungarian World”, when Northern Transylvania was annexed to Hungary, in which he made and sold postcards with views of cities. Ernő Weinstock (1893-1985) was one of the most important postcard publishers in Hungary between the two world wars.
His long and eventful life began in Oradea, but was fulfilled in Budapest. He learned the art of developing photography at a young age, which is why he also became a photographer for the then-forming air force in the First World War. Later, he worked in Budapest as a dealer in photographic equipment and materials and founded the Weinstock postcard publishing house. As a talented and skilled photographer, he quickly became a leader in postcard publishing. Ernő Weinstock’s more than 10,000 glass negatives are a valuable visual record of the built heritage of hundreds of settlements in the Carpathian Basin. His unique legacy was acquired by the Public Foundation of the Szentendre Open Air Museum with the help of the “Collection of Values” programme of the Hungarian National Bank and is preserved at the Open Air Museum.
The exhibition presented by the Szentendre Open Air Museum will include original photographs and postcards of Ernő Weinstock, as well as the photographer’s tools and Transylvanian memorabilia from that period.
The exhibition will be open until 30 August 2024.
