F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1994/2. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1994)

MŰHELY - Sonkoly Károly: Historizáló stílusú díszítőfestések feltárása a pécsi Vasváry-házban

is standing, made in the Zsolnay-factory, their pairs can be seen on the yard-facade. First of all the main facade, but other parts of the house as well were decorated with reliefs made in the Zsolnay-factory (terracotta, stucco, pirogranite). The largescale reconstruction was begun by the wealthy merchant György Vasváry (Traiber), owner of the house. He had his hardware store in the ground-floor of the building, in the front of the first floor there was his large and representative apartment. The rich interior decoration is not only preserved in photographs, the apartment has remained in an unchanged form in the possession of the family-members. The most interesting is the decoration of the staircase and the salon, mainly the decorative wall-paintings probably made around 1879. In the course of the archeological investigation ceiling decorations were discovered in the rooms beside the salon, in five more rooms originating from the same years and covered by later layers. Among them are interesting portrait-medaillons showing the owner and his family members. Their master must have been József Ferenc Mücke, an artist studying at the Academy of Vienna, while the wall decorations might be attributed to the famous master of the period in Pécs, to Károly Buday. The condition of the wall paintings makes possible their restoration and reconstruction. Following the reconstruction work in the Vasváry-house a local historical exhibition is planned to be opened in the interiours of the house to show the bourgeois culture of the turn-of-the-century Pécs.