Mazányi Judit (szerk.): A felfedezett Duna-parti kisváros. A 20. századi magyar művészet Szentendréről nézve - Ferenczy Múzeum kiadványai, C. sorozat: Katalógusok 3. (Szentendre, 2013)
Mazányi Judit: A szerb iskolától a Pajor-kúriáig. Az új Ferenczy Múzeum megszületésének története
Judit Mazányi FROM THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX SCHOOL TO THE PAJOR'S MANSION The Birth of the New Ferenczy Museum (Summary) The Szentendre City Museum was founded in 1951 in the 18"' century building of the former Serbian Orthodox School, and took the name of the painter Károly Ferenczy living and working in the town for a few years. With the early 1960’s forming of county museums the Pest County Museums centre was in Budapest, but it moved to Szentendre in 1968. The museum building was enlarged with a new wing simultaneously, where the first display of the artists of the Ferenczy family was opened in 1972. The idea of organizing a permanent exhibition of the family bequest in Szentendre emerged a year after Béni Ferenczy's death, in 1968. In 1969 negotiations started with the widow of the artist and a sale and purchase contract was set up 10th January 1973, as a result of which 1964 artworks and several documents were handed over to the museum. The exhibition in the old and the new wings opened in 1973, and was open for the visitors till 10th September 2010. As a memory of the bequest, the museum was named after the Ferenczy family. The collection grew as a result of further purchases and donations, and it is now among the most important sources for researchers and visitors as well, displayed in the reconstructed building of the Pajor Mansion once built and owned by the 19th-century doctor, Gáspár Pajor and his family. In addition, in the 1970's and 1980's several legacies of artists were bequested to the Ferenczy Museum (Pest County Museums Directorate) and this resulted in opening a circle of small exhibition halls existing till today all around the town centre. They are dedicated to the art of Margit Kovács (opened in 1973), Béla Czóbel and Mária Modok (opened in 1975), Jenő Barcsay (operend in 1978), Jenő Kerényi (opened in 1978), János Kmetty (opened in 1981), Margit Anna and Imre Ámos (opened in 1984), Lajos Vajda (opened in 1986). Since the whole building of the old Ferenczy Museum was occupied by the exhibitions dedicated to the Ferenczys, the modern artists especially those living and/or working in Szentendre seekedfor another place to exhibit and mainly with this intention the Szentendre Art Gallery (Szentendrei Képtár) was founded on the Main Square in 1977. However, a permanent display of the Szentendre modern artists was not realised even there, because this centrally located building was used for other purposes as well, and also housed several historical and ethnographical exhibitions of the museum. In 1991 the former and ruined sawmill of Szentendre was chosen as a new location for modern art exhibitions, but it did not function as a gallery until 1999, when it was operated by the town (since 2012 the ArtMill got under the direction of the Ferenczy Museum as well). Though several events took place in the ArtMill since then, for a permanent exhibition on the modern Szentendre art one had to wait until the opening of the new Ferenczy Museum in 2013. In the new museum building, besides displaying the art of the eight founders of the Szentendre Artists' Colony and the art of the members of the Ferenczy family, finally a permanently renewed selection of the artworks of the Szentendre modern artists are on display for the interested visitors. 11
