Munkácsy’s Ecce Homo painting is being built from LEGO bricks in Debrecen

In their announcement, they wrote that students from several Debrecen elementary schools and interested families will create a paraphrase of the monumental painting using 155,000 LEGO bricks from November 11 to December 13.

The eight-panel, nearly A two and a half meter high and almost four meter wide LEGO mosaic image will be set up in front of the public on December 13th in front of the Munkácsy Hall of the Déri Museum, in the dome room – they wrote, adding:

With this initiative, they would like to arouse students’ interest in museums and the world of art – they added.

According to the announcement, the unique project is a collaboration between the Déri Museum in Debrecen, the LEGO Manufacturing Kft. in Nyíregyháza, the Wesselényi Museum in Nyíregyháza Miklós Technical School and College Tekerd! group, the Debrecen Community Center, the Nyíregyháza Vocational Training Center, and Debrecen students – including children with hearing impairments and speech disorders – are working together.

The students at the Debrecen school sites will participate in the Tekerd! group in Nyíregyháza. According to the method developed by the group, the image units are laid out based on small color and tone maps, which are recorded on the boards by the young people of the professional team – they indicated.