Metadata: Collection of Aurel S Popp
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române. Direcţia Judeţeană Satu Mare
- Postal address:
- Satu Mare, Str. 1 Decembrie 1918, 13, Satu Mare, 440010, jud. Satu Mare
- Phone number:
- 0261-711102
- Reference number:
- Fond 26
- Title:
- Collection of Aurel S Popp
- Title (official language):
- Popp S. Aurel
- Creator/accumulator:
- Popp, Aurel S
- Date(s):
- 1763/1960
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 314 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Graphic material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The Collection Aurel S Popp includes personal documents, correspondence, sketches, photos and autobiographical fragments referring to the artist Aurel S Popp and his family. The fonds also contains albums from the period of the First World War, political and union documents and literary, artistic and religious writings.
Jewish references appear especially in the correspondence with Jewish intellectuals from Transylvania in the inter-war and post-Second World War period, namely: file 103 - correspondence with the Jewish writer Oszkar Bard (1925-1929); file 105 - correspondence with Marcell Berger (1957); file 106 - correspondence with Simon Berkovits (1922); file 110 - correspondence with the art historian Istvan Borgida from Cluj (1955-1958); file 161 - correspondence with the writer Rodion Markovits from Oradea (1931).
- Archival history:
- The collection was sold by Aurel S Popp to the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives in 1973, 1974, 1980 and 1981. Other parts of the Collection were transferred from the county museum of Satu Mare in 1976. The material was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The painter and sculptor Aurel S Popp was born in Căuaş on 30 August 1879, being the son of the local priest. He attended the primary schools in Căuaş, Craidorolţ and Carei, continuing his studies in the Piarist high school of Carei. From 1899 to 1903 he was a student at the arts academy in Budapest. He became professor of drawing at the Royal Catholic high school in Satu Mare and began in 1907 to exhibit at official exhibitions in Budapest. Between 1910 and 1912 he travelled in western Europe and in 1913 had a personal exhibition of the works that resulted from these travels. He took part in the First World War on the Russian and Italian fronts and the collection includes his photos and correspondence from this time. In the inter-war period and after the Second World War he became a well-known artist with exhibitions in Bucharest (1926) and Cluj (1930). He was also interested in architecture. He corresponded with the main intellectual personalities of this time, many of whom were Jewish. He died in Satu Mare in 1960.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bard, Oszkar
- Berger, Marcell
- Berkovits, Simon
- Borgida, Istvan
- Markovits, Rodion
- Subject terms:
- Art
- Correspondence
- Literature
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 31, held by the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (researcher, Institute for Study of National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2017
