Dénesi Tamás (szerk.): Collectanea Sancti Martini - A Pannonhalmi Főapátság Gyűjteményeinek Értesítője 8. (Pannonhalma, 2020)
II. Gyűjteményeinkből
156 Prohászka László: Berán Lajos magyar főpapi személyi érmei Szögi László (2015), Az Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem története képekben, Budapest. Takács Imre (1996), Pannonhalma újjáépítése a 13. században, in Mons Sacer 996– 1996. Pannonhalma 1000 éve, I, szerk. Takács Imre, Pannonhalma, 170–236. Tanulmányok a váci múzeum múltjából = Tanulmányok a váci múzeum múltjából, szerk. Zomborka Márta – Forró Katalin, Vác, 2007. Török Pál (2011), Magyarországi érem- és plakettművészet 1850–1945, Budapest. Varga A. József (2010), Soltész Elemér protestáns tábori püspök, Budapest. Vayer Lajos (1935), Pázmány Péter ikonográfiája, Budapest. László Prohászka Individual Medals of Hungarian Prelates by Lajos Berán Lajos Berán (1882–1941) was considered a highly gifted artist of outstanding quality in the field of medal making in Hungary by Hungarian arts criticism as early as the end of the first decade of the 20th century. He started his studies in the studio of Ede Telcs, which he continued with Edmund von Hellmer at a higher level in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1899. His works were first exhibited in the National Saloon Budapest in 1902. In 1903, he won at the competition for creating the Trefort-medal, and after that, his lifework was mainly dominated by making artistic medals becoming the most industrious Hungarian artist of medal making. He won a gold medal at the Expo organised in Milan in 1906. His professional recognition was marked by the fact that he was the chief engraver of the Hungarian Royal State Mint from 1931 until his death. In 1935, he won the gold medal of the Society of Hungarian Artists, and in 1936, he won the grand prize of the National Association of Hungarian Artists. Lajos Berán’s works of religious art include many individual medals portraying Hungarian prelates. With the aim at completeness, the present paper enumerates these individual medals and plaques of prelates representing leaders of the Reformed and the Unitarian Churches as well among the Roman Catholic prelates. The thematic introduction of the abovementioned works is important because many of these medals – including some rare copies – are kept in the collection of the Museum of the Archabbey of Pannonhalma. An additional speciality is that one of the moulded bronze copies of the large-pattern of the reverse of the jubilee silver two-pengo commemorative coin of Pázmány Péter University minted in 1935 can also be found in Pannonhalma. The summary of the medals designed by Berán and collected in Pannonhalma can be found in this paper’s conclusion.
