F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1996/2. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1996)

KIÁLLÍTÁS - Marosi Ernő: A magyar műemlékvédelem százötven éve

tional task and was accepted in the first half century of Hungarian monument protection. On the millenary exhibition Hungarian monument protection could report on what was the result of exceptional personalities scientific activity based on a movement of the ecclesiastic and secular elite of international values.The most important part of this exhibition-that has been valued only lately not only in documentative,but in aesthetical sense-is the heritage of this period.This heritage is a precious work of art for as, like the original ones themselves, and the works of the restorers of the period are monuments as well. The development, on which the Hungarian „Gründerzeit" celebrating its twenty-five years of succès - and the monument protection of this period - could look back just hundred years ago, is not unbroken. The second half century of the National Committee of Monuments could not be said easier.Beyond the difficulties of the circumstances following 1919 progressive thought was discredited like conservative taste became a moral command. The brilliant balancing qualities of a person like Tibor Gerevich was necessary to adapt modernity to traditions and to direct despair caused by the lost values to the scientific reconstruction and the research of values hidden partly unearthed in the central part of the country. This exhibition does not show the monument protection of the preceding last fifty years. Children tell easier on their connection with the grandparents, but could not avoid clearing the father complex. The saving of the monuments and sources of the last fifty years is our task, like the thinking and rethinking on monuments, if we would like so.