Agria 38. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2002)

H. Szilasi Ágota: Fejezetek az Egri Képtár 1945 utáni történetéből

den Besitz des Museums gelangt waren; diese Neuinstallation erforderte eine Neubearbeitung des Katalogs und eine genauere Beschreibung der Säle (1979), insbesondere hinsichtlich des europäischen Materials. Dieser Katalog war bis zur Installation 1996 in Gebrauch, obwohl inzwischen eine erneute Installation im Jahre 1981 vorgenommen wurde, die sich in erster Linie auf eine Modernisierung der früheren konzentrierte. Die 1996 erneuerte Galerie europäischen Niveaus stellt den Besuchern die im letzten Jahrzehnt restaurierten Werke sowie Ergebnisse der neuen Forschungen vor. An einem Farbkatalog dazu, der sich durchaus wissenschaftliche Ansprüche stellt, wird zurzeit gearbeitet. Agota H. Szüasi The History of the Eger Picture post1945 Several studies have already dealt with the history of the Eger Picture Gallery and the composition of the collection. Such studies tend to focus on the early history of the picture gallery, particularly in relation to the art writer Miklós Szmrecsányi. We have still to wait for a comprehensive survey of the post-war history of a picture gallery which contains, certainly by Hungarian standards, a significant collection of both Hungarian and European art. Such a study is necessary if for no other reason than to describe how the collection came to be in a state collection and how the new acquisitions were made. When outlining the history of the collection after the Second World War one needs to start in the years immediately preceding the governmental order signed on 4

th August 1950 marking the end of the Archdiocesan Lyceum Museum and its Picture Gallery. Founded at the end of the 19

th century, they became part of a state museum collection made up of works coming from public buildings in both Eger and elsewhere in the county. The destiny of the paintings was thus determined by the ideological climate of the time. As a result of the reorganisation the picture gallery's most beautiful paintings and those in the best condition found themselves selected for the first exhibition to be put on at the museum following its arrival at the castle in 1958. Some feverish research activity took place prior to the opening of the Eger Picture Gallery in 1958. Several pictures were restored and data relating to the pictures in the catalogues were double-checked and corrected. Szmrecsányi's findings which had been made many years earlier offered some interesting attri71