Art Restoration | American Hungarian L

PRESERVING OUR HERITAGE

The $15,000 Restoration Challenge

The Hungaria Nostra Foundation of Los Angeles has generously awarded the AHLHS a $7,500 matching grant.

Every dollar you donate today will be matched 1:1, doubling your contribution to ensure that the masterpieces in our care—many with harrowing histories of survival—are restored for future generations.

“ To preserve the past to gift the future.”

Support the preservation of the American Hungarian Library and Historical Society (AHLHS) art collection. Our library is more than a repository of books; it is the steward of a unique art collection that tells the story of the Hungarian cultural bridge between Budapest and New York.

The Women Artists of the Riverside Museum (1939)

In October 1939, as war began to consume Europe, a landmark exhibition titled “International Women Painters, Sculptors, Gravers” opened at the Riverside Museum in New York. The Hungarian section featured works by pioneering women artists whose voices were nearly silenced by history.

Józsa Jaritz, Under the Big Tree

The Struggle for Survival:
After Hungary’s entry into WWII, these works were confiscated by the U.S. Office of Alien Property Custodian.

Erzsébet Loránt, Skating

Alice Endresz, Flowery Meadow

Mission: These paintings represent the talent of women artists who worked under the shadow of global conflict.

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PRESERVING OUR HERITAGE

The $15,000 Restoration Challenge

PRESERVING OUR HERITAGE

We are thrilled to announce that we have secured a $7,500 matching pledge for the restoration and study of our unique art collection, including a catalogue and special exhibition. To complete this initiative and make the artwork accessible to the public, we still need your support.

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$200 Cover the cleaning of a painting

Cover the cleaning of a painting

$200

$500 Basic restoration

Basic restoration

$500

$750 Full restoration and cleaning of a painting with minor damages

Full restoration and cleaning of a painting with minor damages

$750

$1,000 Cover the cost of a complex restoration - your name will appear

Cover the cost of a complex restoration - your name will appear

$1,000

$5,000 Cover the cost of the catalogue - your name will appear

Cover the cost of the catalogue - your name will appear

$5,000

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