Happy New Year

 Dear Readers,

Season's Greetings and
Best Wishes for
The New Year!

The statue is poet Attila József

(photo: Inui Tsuyoshi)

Chiyo Wagner was awarded the Knight's Cross

 The President of the Republic of Hungary János Áder awarded Mrs. Wagner Chiyo the founding President of Academia Humana Foundation the Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit. It was presented to her by H.E. Norbert Palanovics Ambassador of Republic of Hungary in Tokyo today.

The solemn moment of the presentation

This special event was also attended by President Koji Akiyama and Mr. Norihiro Katada of the Wagner Nándor Foundation.

L to R: Mr. Norihiro Katada, Mr. Koji Akiyama, Mrs. Chiyo Wagner and H.E. Norbert Palanovics

Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit
for Mrs. Chiyo Wagner

The award document emphasized Mrs. Chiyo Wagner's outstanding role in the development of Hungarian-Japanese cultural relations and taking care of artistic estate of sculptor Nándor Wagner.

It is a great day both for Academia Humana Foundation in Budapest and Wagner Nándor Foundation in Mashiko as well.

Photos: Koji Akiyama

Spring Exhibition in Mashiko

This spring brings an exhibition of Nándor Wagner's stainless steel statues, remarkable Eternity which was created in Sweden. The Wagner Nándor Art Gallery will show his creative pieces, some of them for the first time.

Poster of Spring Exhibition

The exhibition space in Pentagon Gallery will be given to the statues of SHIMA Tsuyoshi (島剛) sculptor, professor at Ibaraki University's Faculty of Education and Art Major. His collection is titled Dunamis.

The Spring Exhibition is open from 15th of April to 15th of May, 2020. Closed on all Mondays.

Atumn Exhibition In Mashiko

The autumn exhibition will focus on the statues of Wagner Nandor. The accompanying exhibition in the Pentagon Gallery will show the art pieces of Mr. Takehiko Kikuchi painter. He was born in Ashikaga, Tochigi-Prefecture and at present he is professor at Tama University of Arts. It will open on 15th of October and last day of the exhibition is 15th of November. On all Mondays are closed for visitors.

The poster of the exhibition

Location: Mashiko, Mashiko, Haga District, Tochigi Prefecture 321-4217, Japán

Paul Nagy: Une francophonie millénaire

Paul Nagy has been living in Paris since 1956. He had been researching at French libraries for ten years in order to collect correspondences and texts of Hungarian royals and famous ones written in French to royals, politicians, high ranking military officers, artists, writers, institutions, friends and so on. That unique collection has been published in French titled "Une francophonie millénaire" by Honoré Champion publisher. The anthology covers the period from sixteenth century to early twentieth century. The book was published with the support of our foundation.

First volume

Home page of Honoré Champion

Paul Nagy writer, translator of literary and poetic works. He and Tibor Papp founded magazine Magyar Műhely in 1962 and sister magazine L'Atelier in 1972 respectively. His second anthology covering the texts of twentieth century writings and correspondences already has been in preparation.

Happy New Year!

Dear Readers with
 Season's Best Greetings 

we wish you

good health, happiness and success 

for the New Year!

Autumn in Mashiko.

Entrance of Wagner Nandor Foundation.

Autumn Exhibition in Mashiko

This autumn the Mashiko Wagner Nandor Exhibition will be held from 15th of October to 15th of November. The topic is to show the Hungarian period of the sculptor. More or less parallel the Szekesfehervar Exhibition is going on and photos from that exhibition will be displayed as well. 

1st of April - New Nameplate in Mashiko

According to the Japanese law the new economic year starts on 1st of April. The Wagner Nándor Foundation has begun her official operation in Mashiko. In spite of the earthquake damages the life should go on.

Earthquake in Mashiko

11th of March at 14:46 an earthquake intensity 6th (very strong) on the Japanese scale hit Mashiko

The Spring Exhibition, the first one organized by Wagner Nándor Foundation was cancelled due to the damages of the strong earthquake in Japan.
The almost five minute earthquake caused substantial damages to the city's ceramic industry and large volume of stock was broken in the shops. For the broken ceramic pieces the city allocated a dumping site.
In the buildings of the foundation there were some damages also. Among the art pieces one statue - Lao Tse - was fallen down, few terracotta were broken and the statue of Prince Shotoku turned with its massive pedestal together circa 15 degrees.

From: Facebook Tohoku daijishin Mashiko machi (one of 11 photos)

Change of the Name

After a longer period of preparation the name of the TAO Foundation will be officially changed to Wagner Nándor Foundation from 1st of April this year. The foundation under the new name will continue all her activities.