Secure Scanned : 11/17/2025
21st Century 2024 -
Overview:The founder of Nyugat, the scion of the last wealthy patronage family. That's pretty much all we know about Lajos Hatvany. Few have heard of his political trial, his relationship with his passionate art collector brother Ferenc and his tragic sister, his love as a maid in a brothel, and the children born from the relationship. What happened to the amazing family fortune? Why does Moscow still think that the paintings purchased by Ferenc Hatvany are rightfully gathering dust in the cellars of its museums? Do the descendants living today even know what an infinite wealth their ancestors lived in? Borbála Kerekes seeks answers to these questions, among others, with the last Hatvany descendant raised in Hungary, Helga Hatvany.

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