The show of Károly Ferenczy's oeuvre in the Hungarian National Gallery is part of an exhibition series, consisting of large-scale solo exhibitions that review the history of Hungarian modern art. The name of Károly Ferenczy is mainly remembered in connection with the Nagybánya Colony of Artists that began in 1896. By shaping of a Hungarian version of impressionism and postimpressionism, Károly Ferenczy was considered one of the founders of modern Hungarian painting art.

The exhibition reveals how much Károly Ferenczy did for modernism in the 20th century in Hungary, who, while constantly involved in solving similar problems as his German, French or American colleagues were interested in formed one of the most important oeuvre sin Hungarian art.

The works of art are not shown in chronological order, does not focus on various periods of the artist in terms of style but are revealed along the line of motifs Károly Ferenczy painted through his career. For Károly Ferenczy family, both as emotional fortress and intellectual medium was extremely important. His wife, Olga Fialka was also a visual artist. His first born son, Valér Ferenczy also became a painter; the twins Noémi and Béni were also talented as visual artists: Noémi Ferenczy formed Hungarian tapestry art. Béni Ferenczy was an important sculptor in Hungary.

The last room honours the artist family.

The material on display consists of nearly 150 and 80 graphics. The selection focuses on the most important works of art from the artist from Hungarian and international public- and private collections. Over sixty works are from private collections.

The curators for the exhibition are the art historians Judit Boros and Edit Plesznivy.