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Artists Association of Pest [Pesti Muegyesület; Pesther Kunst-Verein].
Hungarian association of artists, active in Pest from 1839 to 1869. It was established to organize fine art exhibitions. In 1838 Agoston Trefort (1817–88), with László Serenyi, Miklós Jósika (1796–1865) and József Eötvos (1813–71), began to plan an association that would support Hungarian artists and that would operate as a joint stock company. In November 1839 Trefort was made the first President, with László Szalay (1813–64) as Secretary. Although its primary task was to help those artists who wished to be free of the academic constrictions of the Vienna and Munich Artists Associations, it also wanted to awaken an interest in contemporary art and public art. Vince Grimm took on the role of dealer, since he had many connections with the Viennese art market. The association’s first exhibition opened on 7 June 1840 in the Vigado Concert Hall in Pest. The organizers exhibited works by the most famous contemporary Hungarian artists, including Miklós Barabás (1810–98), Jakab Marastoni (1804–60), Bálint Kiss, János Rombauer (1782–1849) and Pál Balkay (1785–1846), and a larger number of works by well-known foreign painters (Carl Rottmann, Josef Danhauser, Friedrich von Amerling, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Franz Jaschke) and by Károly Márkó (i), who was Hungarian but lived in Italy. Almost 9000 visitors were able to see the work of these foreign artists for the first time in Pest. The number of shareholders rose to 1200 after the success of the exhibition.
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