Desiderius Orban - Legacy

Legacy

• 1975, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his service to the arts.
• 1982, Orban was awarded the Gold Medal of the Order of the Hungarian Flag by the People's Republic of Hungary.

In the 21st century European museums have held major exhibits on the Hungarian modernists and marked the centenary of the first exhibit of The Eight.

• 2006, Hungarian Fauves from Paris to Nagybánya, 1904-1914, 21 March--30 July 2006, Hungarian National Gallery
• 2010, A Nyolcak (The Eight): A Centenary Exhibition, 10 December 2010 – 27 March 2011, Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs
• 2012, The Eight. Hungary's Highway in the Modern (Die Acht. Ungarns Highway in die Moderne), 12 September - 2 December 2012, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, collaboration with Museum of Fine Arts and Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest.