Czeglédy Imre: Munkácsy Békés megyében (A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 17. Békéscsaba, 1994)

„Condemned Cell" with this work he had an unexpected success at first in Düsseldorf, than in 1870 in a Parisian Saloon. His fame was rising very quicky. At the end of 1871 he moved to Paris and settled down forever. He received many letters from his uncle, who gave directing and caring ideas how to save, how to assist the Hungarian Art. He asked his famous nephew to love his home land. The author devoted a separate chapter to this correspondence. In August 1874 he was married to the widow of De Marches baron, and at the end of there Honeymoon they spent near one and half months in Békéscsaba on the Kismegyer farm. Munkácsy was happy again to be in his workshop. He painted two paintings, the sudies to The Hero of the Village, in which the farmhands of uncle Reök were the models. In 1877 there was a great blow in the Reök family, the uncle committed a suicide. The family then moved to Budapest. This is the reason, why the "visiting" Munkácsy did not come to Békéscsaba to visit his relatives. At the friends request, he devoted a day 7. October 1890. to visit the town and the friends

. It was the last time he would see the memories of his childhood. After the death of Munkácsy, streets in Békéscsaba and Gyula were named after him and a statue was erected for his memory, and there are memorial plaques on the houses, where he lived and worked. The Museum of Békéscsaba has been called Munkácsy. At the end of the study, two hungarian friends from Paris have been mentioned: an author, Zsigmond Just, who came from near Orosháza, and a painter, Lajos Osko. The documents of there connection to Munkácsy were published. The work has been made by turning the library sources upside down by using a fine arts collection and the Munkácsy relics of the Museum of Békéscsaba. 224