Tibor Gerevich
Tibor Gerevich (born June 14, 1882 in Marmaroschsiget , † June 11, 1954 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian art historian .
Live and act
Tibor Gerevich, who came from a Greek Catholic family, studied art history at the University of Budapest and the University of Berlin and was awarded a doctorate in art history by Gyula Pasteiner (1846–1924) in Budapest in 1904. phil. PhD. He then continued his art history studies in Bologna until 1906 . From 1908 he worked as an assistant at the Budapest National Library , then went to the Hungarian National Museum as a staff member and in 1911 became a private lecturer in Italian art history at the Budapest University. From 1924 - the year of his habilitation - until his death he was professor of art history there.
From 1924 to 1927 he was director of the Hungarian Historical Institute in Rome and from 1928 to 1929 President of the Accademia d'Ungheria in Rome. He was also the Hungarian curator at the Biennale di Venezia . Since 1932, Tibor Gerevich stood in the Kingdom of Hungary as conservators of the Committee of National Monuments ago. In Esztergom he dealt with the history of the castle and in 1944 became director of the Christian museum ( s ) there.
In 1922 Tibor Gerevich became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , and in 1934 a full member . In 1935 he received the Matthias Corvinus Decoration for Services to Science, Literature and Art. As a member of the Hungarian Mickiewicz Society, he contributed to maintaining Polish-Hungarian relations. He was also known in Hungary before the war as an important cultural politician. He published his work on art history in Hungarian, Italian and German.
Fonts (selection)
- Az arányosság elméletének és gyakorlati alkalmazásának története a művészetben . Budapest 1904 (dissertation).
- Tracce di Michelangelo nella scuola di Francesco Francia . Bologna 1908.
- A krakkói Czatoryski-képtár olasz képei. Budapest 1918.
- Kolozsváry Tamás, az első magyar képtáblafestő . Budapest 1923.
- A régi magyar művészet európai helyzete. Pécs 1924.
- L'arte antica ungherese . Rome 1930.
- Pasteiner Gyula emlékezete . Budapest 1933.
- Magyarország románkori emlékei. Műemlékek Országos Bizottsága, Budapest 1938.
literature
- Gerevich, Tibor . In: Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti . Volume 16, Milan 1932 ( digitized version ).
- Gerevich Tibor . In: Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon Volume 1, Budapest 1967 ( digitized version )
- Péter Tusor: Tibor Gerevich . In: Stefan Heid , Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology. Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , Volume 1, pp. 563-564.
Web links
- Literature by and about Tibor Gerevich in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Information on Tibor Gerevich in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Entries in Arthistoricum.net
Remarks
- ↑ Hungarian Műemlékek Országos Bizottságának (MOB),
- ↑ for example: On the role of proportionality in art.
- ↑ Michelangelo's footsteps in the school of Francesco Francia.
- ^ Italian paintings in the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow.
- ^ The painter Thomas von Klausenburg.
- ↑ for example: The old Hungarian art in the European context
- ↑ Memories of Gyula Pasteiner.
- ↑ The Romanesque Monuments of Hungary.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerevich, Tibor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marmaroschsiget |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1954 |
| Place of death | Budapest |