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4000 Forint Gödöllő Artist Colony
| Issuer | Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Hungarian National Bank) |
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| Year | 2001 |
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| Currency | Forint (1946-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Rectangular flan with a shallow Art Nouveau border frame enclosing a high-relief depiction inspired by the stained-glass window art characteristic of the Gödöllő Artist Colony, showing three female figures rendered in a stylized, flowing Secessionist manner, surrounded by circular decorative roundels with floral motifs. The scene evokes the distinctive Arts and Crafts aesthetic of the colony. Below the central design panel, the commemorative legend is inscribed across three lines in the lower field. |
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The Gödöllő Artists' Colony was founded in 1901 by a group of Hungarian painters and applied artists who settled around the royal palace town northeast of Budapest, consciously modeling themselves on the English Arts and Crafts movement. Their centenary fell in 2001 — the direct occasion for this issue. The colony's leading figures, including Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch and Sándor Nagy, drew heavily on folk art traditions and Tolstoyan communal ideals, an unusual combination that gave the group a distinct character within European Art Nouveau.
The commemorative series of which this forms part was struck at the Magyar Pénzverő mint in Budapest.