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Hungarian People's Republic was represented by a large modular modernist Pavillion designed by the architect Lajos Gádoros. It hosted a mix of early-1900s paintings by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary, Jozsef Egry and Gyula Derkovitz, and modern ones such as "Life in Budapest" fresco painted on aluminium panels by Túry Mária and Kádár György. The scenario for the exhibition was compiled by the wroter Iván Boldizsár.

It combined modern art and sculpture with older more traditional paintings of

The exhibition took time during some of the most turbulent times in country's history. Decision to participate was done under a Stalinist party leader shortly after he got rid of his reformist PM. By the time the exhibition ended, the leader was exiled, and his PM was executed.

It had three main areas including entrance József Somogyi and Kerényi Jenő dynamic statue group "Dancers", that won a Grand Prix was later bought by the city of Namur.

, economy and art.

The original idea was to link it with the Bulgarian pavillion, but the latters decided not to participate afterall.

Although ultra-modern, the organisers were forced to pay lip-service to the socialist realism, so Somogyi's statue of Smelter was placed outside.

ngarian pavilion were now to be greeted by the statue of an industrial worker. They can also have found it pleasing to know that the fresco, with the theme 'life in Budapest', on the walls of the room of light industry (section 'B' in the pavilion) would be made less visible 'by way of resorting to proper exhibition technique'.46 The head of the gov ernment commission emphasized that the fresco, painted on aluminium panels by Gyorgy Kadar and Maria Tury Túry Mária Kádár György (festő)

together with photographs of Hungarian modern architecture buildings.

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