Terèz Gerszi 80

 

Terèz Gerszi was born in Budapest in 1927. She took her degree in art history and museology at the Budapest Eötvös Loránd University in 1951. From the same year on she has always been working in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, at the Department of Prints and Drawings. She was appointed Keeper of this department in 1979, and lead it until 1992. Since then she is working in this museum as a senior curator. In 1992 as a sign of appreciation of her scientific oeuvre she was elected a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. In 1993 she got the title of Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She is member of the Committee of Art History of the same Academy.

 

Her first book appeared in 1960 in Hungarian, on The History of Hungarian Litograph in the 19th century (edition of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), the first,basic publication on the subject. Her research-work was later focused on 16th and 17th century Netherlandish and 16th century German drawings – she produced several studies and notes on this field in different European and American art historical periodicals. Her books on Bruegel and his Age (Corvina Publishing House, Budapest, Paris, New York) and on Capolavori del rinascimento tedesco (Fratelli Fabbri, Milan, Paris, Munich) came out in different languages in 1970 and the following years. In 1971 her complete catalogue of 16th Century Netherlandish Drawings in the Budapest Museum (Van Gent, Amsterdam, Abner Schram, New York) appeared. She was editor of a series of selected master drawings in the Budapest Museum, published by Corvina, Budapest. She wrote herself the first volume of this series, including 16th and 17th century Netherlandish pieces (Zwei Jahrhunderte Niederländischer Zeichenkunst), which ran into eleven editions in different languages. Several articles and a monograph on Paulus van Vianen. Handzeichnungen (From 1982 on, in Hungarian, German, Dutch and Czech languages) dealt with aspects of landscape in Netherlandish art. In 1985 as Keeper of Prints and Drawings in the Museum of Fine Arts, she organized an exhibition in three American museums with the title Leonardo to Van Gogh. Master Drawings from Budapest (Washington, National Gallery; Chicago, Art Institute; Los Angeles, County Museum of Art). The catalogue of this exhibition was edited and partly written by her and published also in German and French in Budapest („Leonardo to Chagall”, 1988). Another favourite subject she dealt with, was art in the court of Rudolph II. in Prague. She was member of the scientific committee preparing the exhibition „Prag um 1600. Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Rudolf II.”, shown in Essen in 1988, and in Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum in 1989. She produced the very first survay on the graphic art of this circle in her essay for the catalogue, and she is also author of several entries in it. Nine studies were dedicated by her to the Bruegel-tradition in Netherlandish landscape – altering on several points the former ideas on the development of landscape in the Netherlands. She helped to organize the „Bruegel – Brueghel” exhibition in Essen and Vienna, realized in 1997-1998. Her interest in Flemish landscapists in Italy around 1600 manifested itself in many essays, published in different periodicals and dealing with the art of Lodewijk Toeput, Joos de Momper, and Paulus Bril. Her complete catalogue of 17th Century Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts appeared in 2005 (edition of the Museum of Fine Arts). Terèz Gerszi organized several exhibitions in the Museum of Fine Arts, the most recent one was Rembrandt 400. Etchings and Drawings, realized in the summer of 2005, which attracted 120.000 visitors.

Tèrez's colleagues at the museum have organized a Festschrift for her in the form of a virtual exhibition. Each contribution is an entry for a drawing. The volume is scheduled to appear in the coming fall. The authors and the artists about whom they are writing are:

IN ARTE VEUNUSTAS, STUDIES ON DRAWINGS IN HONOUR OF TERÉZ GERSZI (09/2007)

HEINRICH SCHULTZE ALTCAPPENBERG, Johann Georg Wille

ÉVA BAJKAY, Lajos Tihanyi

SYLVIE BÉGUIN, Francesco Primaticcio

MARIA BERGE-GERBAUD, Jacob Hoefnagel

HOLM BEVERS, Marten van Heemskerck

SZILVIA BODNÁR, Georg Pecham

KATA BODOR, George Grosz

JAAP BOLTEN, Abraham Bloemaert

BEKET BUKOVINSKÁ – LUBOMIR KONEC(NY`, Aegidius Sadeler

JOHAN BOSCH VAN ROSENTHAL, Pieter Stevens

EMMANUELLE BRUGEROLLES - DAVID GUILLET, Domenico Cresti, Il Passignano

MARCO CHIARINI, Adriano Fiammingo

ANDREA CZÉRE, Donato Creti

THOMAS DACOSTA KAUFMANN, Paulus van Vianen

NICOLE DACOS, Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelinck

FERENC DÁVID, Nicolaus Jacoby

TACO DIBBITS, Girolamo Muziano

THOMAS DÖRING, Jan Pynas

CHARLES DUMAS, Simon de Vlieger

ALBERT ELEN, Jan van der Straet, Stradanus

MARZIA FAIETTI, Denys Calvaert, Dionisio Calvart

CHRIS FISCHER, Hans von Aachen

URSULA VERENA FISCHER PACE, Annibale Carracci

ELIŠKA FUC(IKOVÁ, Hans von Aachen

GIULIA FUSCONI, Philipp Schor

MIKLÓS GÁLOS, Circle of Johann Georg Bergmüller

JUDIT GESKÓ, Gábor Roskó

MARIO DI GIAMPAOLO, Siciolante da Sermoneta

JEROEN GILTAIJ, Jan de Braij

CATHERINE MONBEIG GOGUEL, 16. Century Tuscan master

ZSUZSA GONDA, Johann Nepomuk Ott

HANS-MARTIN KAULBACH, Anonymus Fabriczy

ZOLTÁN KÁRPÁTI, Battista del Moro

THOMAS KETELSEN, Sebastian Vrancx

RÜDIGER KLESSMANN, Johann Rottenhammer

DOROTHY LIMOUZE, Aegidius II Sadeler

ÉVA LIPTAY, Egyptian master, B.C. 10. Century

ANNE-MARIE LOGAN, Studio assistant of Rubens

ERNO" MAROSI, Winand von Steeg

SUSANNE MCCULLAGH, Claude Vignon

BERT MEIJER, Sante Peranda

ÉVA NYERGES, Manuel de y Cano

ISTVÁN NAGY, Egyptian master

NADINE ORENSTEIN, Hendrick Goltzius

MICHIEL PLOMP, Matthias Jansz. van den Bergh

SIMONETTA PROSPERI VALENTI RODINO, Angeluccio

FRANKLIN W. ROBINSON, Abraham Bloemaert

MARTIN ROYALTON-KISCH, Paulus Van Vianen

ENIKO" RÓKA, Károly Ferenczy

GREGORY RUBINSTEIN, Jan Siberechts

DORINE VAN SASSE VAN YSSELT, Stradanus (Jan van der Straet)

MARIJN SCHAPELHOUMAN, Victor Boucquet

PETER SCHATBORN, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

RAINER SCHOCH, Hans Werl

GARY SCHWARTZ, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

GIANNI CARLO SCIOLLA, Otto vanVeen

DAVID SCRASE, Willem Pietersz. Buytewech

JUDIT SEBO", 18. Century Dutch Master

JOANEATH  SPICER, Roelandt Saverÿ

EMMANUEL STARCKY, Bénigne Gagneraux

ANNE CHARLOTTE  STELAND, Jacques Rousseau

JÁNOS GYÖRGY SZILÁGYI, Athenian master, B.C. ca. 490

JÚLIA TÁTRAI, Jan van den Hoecke

ROBERT-JAN TE RIJDT, Jacques de Gheyn II

ANNAMARIA PETRIOLI TOFANI, Mirabello Cavalori

NICHOLAS TURNER, Polidoro da Caravaggio

CAREL VAN TUYLL VAN SEROOSKERKEN, Hendrick Goltzius

ZSUZSA URBACH, North Netherlandish master around 1480

THEA VIGNAU-WILBERG, Jan van der Meer de Jonghe

HEINZ WIDAUER, Frederic de Moucheron

MATTHIAS WINNER, Jan Brueghel I

LOUISA WOOD RUBY, Paul Bril

Two precious studies that were too long for the catalogue format will be published in the Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, No. 106:
KLAUS ERTZ, Josse de Momper
GEORGE S. KEYES, Simon de Vlieger