The Salgo Trust for Education is proud to co-sponsor this exhibition, the only major exhibition in Canada to celebrate the centenary of the Bauhaus, the legendary German design school. Installed in the School of Art Gallery of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, the show offers insight into the school’s influence on Canadian architecture, furniture design, graphic design, art and pedagogy. It documents how it was Bauhaus alumni fleeing Europe to the United States before and during WWII such as Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, that trained the Canadians who brought Bauhaus ideas back with them to Canada, and to the University of Manitoba School of Architecture in particular. This show demonstrates that it was mainly via the University of Manitoba that Bauhaus architectural and pedagogical concepts spread throughout Canada. Salgo Trust Curator Dr. Oliver A. I. Botar is curator of this exhibition, and the Trust lent a number of works related to Hungarian Bauhäusler László Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer. The exhibition opened 13 February 2020 before being closed due to the pandemic on March 14th. While the exhibition never reopened, a video tour was recorded with the curator and posted to the School of Art Gallery’s YouTube channel, and plans are currently afoot to create a virtual version of the show.

As part of the exhibition “”Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein” curated by Dr. Vanja V. Malloy at the Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Salgo Trust for Education Curator Dr. Oliver A. I. Botar co-curated, with Dr. Donna Gustafson, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Zimmerli, a special “exhibition within an exhibition” on Charles Sirato (Tamkó Sirató Károly) and the Hungarian avant-garde. The content of this special exhibition included material mostly from The Salgo Trust for Education collection. The exhibition was open 3 September 2019 to 5 January 2020. On Tuesday, October 15th, Dr. Botar delivered the lecture “Charles Sirato’s Journey to the Dimensionist Manifesto and and Beyond” for the Dept. of Art History at Rutgers.

Almost the entire Salgo Trust collection of Hungarian art is now available for public viewing at muzeumdigitar.hu. After a busy summer of re-photographing the entire collection (both in an out of frames), including the verso of each item, our collection is now available for study by the public, in most cases through high-definition photographs. Please go to: https://www.museum-digital.de/hu/portal/index.php?t=listen&type=3&suinin=98&instnr=98&sort=person.