Kecskemét Gallery

The Kecskemét Gallery occupies the Cifra Palace, an Art Nouveau building raised in 1902–1903 to the designs of architect Géza Márkus. After serving other civic functions for decades, the building was adapted and opened to the public as a gallery on 8 October 1983. It brings together three distinct collections. The first was donated by Marcell Nemes, one of early-20th-century Hungary's most important private art collectors, and includes paintings by Mihály Munkácsy, Bertalan Székely and József Rippl-Rónai. The second, the Farkas–Glücks collection, centers on artists once supported by the publisher József Wolfner and contains the country's largest holding of works by László Mednyánszky. The third and largest is devoted to the local 20th-century artist Menyhért Tóth, comprising more than two thousand paintings and some eight thousand drawings, making the gallery a key repository of his life's work.