Műtárgyvédelem 22., 1993 (Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum)
Restaurálás - Konzerválás - Sz. Kürti Katalin: Munkácsy Mihály Golgotájáról
Irodalomjegyzék: 1. N. N.: Christ on CalvarybyM. Munkácsy (New York, 1887) 2. Reményi J.: The Munkácsy-Room = A Hét, 1914. XL. 753-55. p. 3. Végvári L.: Munkácsy Mihály élete és művei (Bp. 1958) 4. Sárdy L.: Az „Ecce homo” - Munkácsy Mihály festményének restaurálása = Déri Múzeum évkönyve 1968. 635-654. p. (Debrecen, 1969) 5. Sz. Kürti K: Munkácsy Mihály Krisztus-trilógiája (Bp. 1989) ABOUT THE GOLGOTHA BY MIHÁLY MUNKÁCSY Abstracts: Mihály Munkácsy painted his large painting „Christ in front of Pilate” in Paris, in 1881. Its success made him continue the topic, and paint the „Golgotha” in 1884. At the Budapest exhibition of this work, he declared that „he was thinking of a new painting, the resurrection, the victory of the idea”. The tragedies of his own life, his illness, fiascos and the political crises in his environmental surroundings, and arguments forced him to finish the trilogy not with the victorious resurrection or with the ascension, but with the second painful meeting between Christ and Pilate, the Ecce Homo (1896). The first two paintings, after a great European and American triumphant tour, came into the ownership of John Wanamaker. Between 1887 and 1907, they were kept in his country house, and later, between 1911 and 1988 in the Wanamaker store, in Philadelphia. In 1988, they were sold by auction; the first painting got to Canada, and the Golgotha to the owner of the New York Pannónia Gallery, Csaba Bereczki (Julian Beck). He later gave the work for safe-keeping to the Hungarian National Musem, and to the Déri Museum in Debrecen. „The Golgotha” can be seen in Budapest for half a year, and in Debrecen from the Autumn of 1993, beside its pair-painting, the „Ecce Homo”, sized at 450 x 650 cm (1896), which was given to Debrecen by Frigyes Déri in 1924, and since 1930 has been hanging in a special room. The group of restorers have had to repair the events of the past 100 years in the case of these unconventional „travels” survived by the „Golgotha”. A szerző cime/Author’s address: Sz. Kürti Katalin múzeológus/museologist Déri Múzeum 4024 Debrecen, Déri tér 1. ill. 4001. Pf.: 61. 77
