F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1994/1. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1994)

KIÁLLÍTÁS - Kerny Terézia: Gerecze Péter fényképhagyatéka. Kiállítás az Országos Műemlékvédelmi Hivatalban 1993. július 15. - szeptember 26

Terézia KERNY THE PHOTOBEQUEST OF PÉTER GERECZE Exhibition in the Hungarian Inspectorate of Historical Monuments The bequest of Peter Gerecze, one-time member of the former National Comittee of Monuments in preserved mainly in two institutes: in the Hungarian Inspectorate of Historical Monuments and its Architectural Museum. The material of the former was only manuscripts, and in the latter mainly family documents were to be found. There is however another group of his bequest: his collection of photographs containing glass negatives and positive copies, which was made mainly for his topographical list and a still not published manuscript (Architectural Monuments in the Period of Kings of the House of Árpád). Part of the photos of monuments were made by himself, but their majority were made by contemporary photographers. This bequest of unmeasurable value got partly in his life, and then following his death to the photographical collection of the National Committee of Monuments. A considerable amount of this has been entered in an inventory during the past decades, but the existence of the remaining part was not known. It is due to Zsuzsanna Ildikó Bakó, a colleague of the photographic collection, that the material was discovered, published and exhibited, and she had systematized the photos in a relatively short period of time. The catalogue made for the exhibition is dealing with the scientific activity of Péter Gerecze (on the basis of his biography), with the bequest got to different public collections and it publishes in alphabethic order the monuments photographed on the territory of historical Hungary with the help of a small description and browned photographs. The catalogue, containig more than 500 items would presumably be an essential source of experts dealing with Romanesque architecture in Hungary.