Műtárgyvédelem, 2011 (Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum)
T. Bruder Katalin megemlékezés, publikációk
OBITUARY KatalinT. Brúdert 1943-2013 ‘In life, man commits himself, and by so doing paints his own portrait.’ Jean-Paul Sartre The death of Katalin T. Bruder has deprived us of someone who, from a young age and with exceptional commitment, did much for the development and recognition of the conservation profession in Hungary. She joined the Hungarian National Museum’s Department of Conservation in 1960 as little more than a child straight from school, in her case the vocational secondary school for art in Budapest’s Török Pál utca. There she had acquainted herself with ceramic materials and had qualified as a potter, as well as passing her Matura examinations. As a beginner at the Museum, she had to clean and reassemble artefacts recovered from excavations. This was a task involving great personal responsibility, since at that time there was no specialist literature dealing with artefact conservation. This meant that like her older colleagues before her, she initially had to acquire the necessary skills mainly through experience. She recognised that conservation work was multifaceted and required expertise in very many fields. For this reason, she broadened her knowledge through continual study. By pooling experience, by researching materials that were more and more up to date, and by developing new methods, Katalin, her contemporaries, and her one-time colleague Géza Báthy laid the foundations in Hungary for the conservation of archaeological finds. In the meantime, Katalin T. Bruder graduated as a teacher of Hungarian and history from the Faculty of Arts at Budapest’s Loránd Eötvös University, thus expanding her horizons still further. Later on, when training had already commenced at the Branch of Applied Art Conservation at the University of Fine Arts, she took part in the teaching work there, sharing her experience with the students. She introduced many new methods in the field of ceramic and metalwork restoration, adding to the Hungarian specialist literature in the process. From 1976 until her retirement, Katalin T. Bruder was deputy head of the Hungarian National Museum’s Conservation Department, which was later called the Department for the Protection and Conservation of Art Objects. As well as in conservation work, she acquired great merit in evaluating the findings of investigations into materials. She is associated with, among other things, a technical discovery which became clear during restoration of a quadripus kept at the Hungarian National Museum. She drew the attention of archaeology researchers to characteristics of the artefact, recorded as a trypus earlier on - that she had noticed. As a result of her observations, she established that the artefact, acquired by the Museum in 1878, 7
