Today the charter member of CODART Terèz Gerszi reached the milestone age of 80, a year after the publication of her magnum opus on the Dutch and Flemish drawings in the Museum of Fine Arts of Budapest, where has worked for over 55 years. CODART wishes her a most joyful birthday and many happy returns of the day.
Curriculum vitae
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 |
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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