Our Foundation owes a lot to an outstanding representative of the Hungarian American community, Dr. Eugene Megyesy, who lives in Denver. This time, he brought us to Budapest some interesting documents of Otto von Habsburg’s visits to Denver and his network of contacts there. The photos are from Ambrose Balajthy Júlia, whose mother was the sister of Etienne Perényi, a prominent figure in the Hungarian colony in Denver and a friend of Otto von Habsburg.
In 1941, Otto von Habsburg was the guest of honour at the commemoration of the 15th of March for Hungarian Americans. A newly discovered photo shows the figures of the Hungarian emigration in unprecedented detail.
A professional conference for photographic and audiovisual archivists called the Image and Research Conference (Antoni Varés Conference) was held in Girona, Spain, from 16 to 19 November 2022. From photo restoration, digitisation issues and 3D modelling of the photograph as an artefact to the use of artificial intelligence in collections, the participants discussed issues in a wide range of fields.
On June 11, 2022, Gergely Prőhle, Director of our Foundation, visited Archduke Simeon von Habsburg in Vaduz, who put at our disposal a collection of nearly 300 photographs.
