Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)

ANNUAL REPORT - A 2007. ÉV - ANDREA CZÉRE: A Celebration and Volume of Studies in Honour of Teréz Gerszi

A CELEBRATION AND VOLUME OF STUDIES IN IIONOUR OF TEREZ GERSZI IN ARTE VENUSTAS. STUDIES ON DRAWINGS IN HONOUR OF TERÉZ GERSZI, PRESENTED FOR HER EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY. ID. ANDREA CZÉRE. BUDAPEST 2007. 2-10 PP., 110 COL. AND 60 B&W II IS.. ISBN 978-963-7063-44-2 (ONLY FOR DISTRIBUTION IN THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARES) Teréz Gerszi, who has been on the staff of the Museum of Fine Arts for more than half a century was celebrated by her friends, students and colleagues on the occasion of her eightieth birthday. A volume of studies prepared in her honour was presented at the event. In her typically modest way Teréz Gerszi originally familiarised herself with the world's great collections on the study tours she undertook largely at her own expense, and she made good use of her knowledge not only through the scholarly work she conducted in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts but also achieved new, major scientific results in connection to works of art in foreign collections. She soon became an internationally recognised, outstanding specialist in Dutch and Flemish art and the long list of her publications and the numerous international projects she participated in are a manifestation of this. A plethora of references to her works and quotations from them can be read in almost every newly published arts monograph, exhibition catalogue, book and article. Her professional achievements are highly respected and relied upon, and her opinion and help are in demand in equal measure both in the Museum of Fine Arts and abroad. A great many guests participated at the celebration. International relations were represented by Bert W. Meijer, the director of the institute of Dutch art history in Florence (Istituto Universitario Olandese Di Storia Dell' Arte), Charles Dumas, the department head of the art history documentation research institute in the Hague (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie), Chris Fischer, the director of the drawing collection in the Statens Museum for Kunst, in Copenhagen and by Marian Bisanz-Prakken, the chief museologist of the Albertina Museum in Vienna. There were also many prominent art historians present from Hungary such as Ernő Marosi and Géza Galavics, and many guests were invited from the Museum of Fine Arts and its partner institutions. After some words of welcome and appraisal by the director-general of the Museum of Fine Arts, László Baán, a short speech was given by Bert W. Meijer, which highlighted the achievements of Teréz Gerszi placed in an international context. János György Szilágyi, her old colleague and good friend, reminisced about their first meeting and ensuing friendship, and shared some humorous anecdotes. On behalf of her students Szilvia Bodnár praised her exem-